woodland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʊd.lənd/
Forms: form: woodlands
Etymology: From Middle English wodeland, wodelond, from Old English wuduland (“woodland; forestland; forest”), equivalent to wood + land. Compare West Frisian wâldlân, Dutch bosland, German Waldland, Icelandic skóglendi.
Eclipsed non-native Middle English salt (“woodland”), borrowed from Latin saltus (“woodland, forest”).
Senses: examples: text: Meronym: woodlot
text: Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, / Here earth and water ſeem to ſtrive again ; / Not Chaos-like together cruſh’d and bruis’d, / But, as the world, harmoniouſly confus’d : / Where order in variety we ſee, / And where, tho’ all things differ, all agree.
ref: 1704, Alexander Pope, “Windsor-Forest”, in The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., volume I, London: C. Barthurst et al., published 1788, page 39:
text: The earth glows with the colors of 1837 civilization ; the banks of the streams are enamelled with richest grasses ; woodlands and cultivated fields are harmoniously blended ; the birds of spring find their delight in orchards and trim gardens, variegated with choicest plants from every temperate zone ; while the brilliant flowers of the tropics bloom from the windows of the green-house and the saloon.
ref: 1838, George Bancroft, chapter XV, in History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume II, Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown:
text: Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
text: The project has been subject to vocal criticism from a few loud voices complaining about its effect on ancient woodlands. One campaigner, Chris Packham, took his case to the High Court, where he comprehensively lost in early April - not least on the grounds that Parliament had authorised the works he was complaining about.
DfT's business case notes: "There are [around] 52,000 ancient woodland sites in England. Of these, a total of 43 will be affected by HS2's route between London and Crewe (Phases 1 and 2a). Over 80% of the total area of these 43 will remain intact and untouched by HS2."
ref: 2020 May 6, Philip Haigh, “Just one more stop on the long journey to HS2 fulfillment [sic]”, in Rail, page 65:
text: In the factory, a colourful woodland of knitted trees points towards a collection of bookends commissioned from Scottish designers and inspired by the globetrotting travels in 1894 of Dundee Courier journalists Marie Imandt and Bessie Maxwell.
ref: 2024 September 21, Eve Livingston, “‘Students want to stay here now rather than disappear to London’: how design transformed the city of Dundee”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: forest
holt
timberland
hypernyms: land
area
glosses: Land covered with woody vegetation.
examples: Near-synonym: grove
synonyms: forest
holt
timberland
hypernyms: land
area
glosses: Land covered with woody vegetation.
A low-density forest.
coordinate_terms: glade
clearing#Noun
qualifier: strictly
Derived terms: word: Eastern Woodlands
word: Hope Woodlands
word: nonwoodland
taxonomic: Lithophragma parviflorum
word: smallflower woodland star
taxonomic: Viola hirsutula
word: southern woodland violet
english: Bison bison pennsylvanicus
translation: Bison bison pennsylvanicus
word: woodland bison
taxonomic: Phlox divaricata
word: woodland blue phlox
taxonomic: Rangifer tarandus caribou
word: woodland caribou
taxonomic: Graphiurus murinus
word: woodland dormouse
word: woodlander
taxonomic: Napaeozapus insignis
word: woodland jumping mouse
taxonomic: Halcyon senegalensis
word: woodland kingfisher
taxonomic: Buphthalmum salicifolium
word: woodland oxeye
taxonomic: Ochlodes sylvanoides
word: woodland skipper
taxonomic: Lithophragma spp.
word: woodland star
taxonomic: Fragaria vesca
word: woodland strawberry
taxonomic: Grammomys dolichurus
word: woodland thicket rat
taxonomic: Microtus pinetorum
word: woodland vole
taxonomic: Viola blanda
word: woodland white violet
taxonomic: Anemonoides ranunculoides
word: yellow woodland anemone
Related terms: gameland