woodland
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: compound
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”).
Compound parts: wood
land
Inflected forms:
form: more woodland
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most woodland
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: woodlands
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of a creature or object: growing, living, or existing in a woodland.
pos: adj
examples: The woodland creatures ran from the fire.
This species [[[w:Red-bellied Woodpecker|Red-bellied Woodpecker]]] is a very little larger than the red-headed one; and it is more woodland in its manners; seldom appearing in orchards or near houses, but keeping to the tall trees in the close forests.
The genera Philomela and Curruca, as we previously observed, are very closely allied to each other, both are woodland in their habits, and both possess great melody of song.
It was a couple of hundred years or so more before I saw a third bullfinch — which didn't surprise me, for bullfinches are very woodland birds, and non-migratory into the bargain — so that they didn’t often get blown seaward over the broad Atlantic.
As its name implies, this species Woodlark] is a more woodland bird than the other British Larks, and in many of its ways of life it resembles the Tree Pipit, frequenting the neighborhood of woods and plantations, but always affecting trees.
gloss: Having the character of a woodland.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: It is a very woodland country, with plenty of grass, but it is too large for four days a-week, and the sport is generally rather indifferent.
[…] understanding that their next fixture was in a very woodland country, and at a distance, I deferred this pleasure to another opportunity.
Shortly after leaving Swindon the main line enters Wiltshire, and runs through an extremely woodland district to Chippenham[…]
gloss: Land covered with woody vegetation.
pos: noun
tags: also
broadly
in-plural
uncountable
usually
examples: Meronym: woodlot
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.
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.
Much as one appreciates the beauty of these woodlands, it was good to learn that some discreet tree-felling may open up the view still further.
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.
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."
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.
gloss: Land covered with woody vegetation.
pos: noun
tags: also
broadly
in-plural
uncountable
usually
examples: Near-synonym: grove
Related words: gameland
Derived words: Eastern Woodlands
Hope Woodlands
nonwoodland
smallflower woodland star
southern woodland violet
woodland bison
woodland blue phlox
woodland caribou
woodland dormouse
woodlander
woodland jumping mouse
woodland kingfisher
woodland oxeye
woodland skipper
woodland star
woodland strawberry
woodland thicket rat
woodland vole
woodland white violet
yellow woodland anemone
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: гориста меестност
roman: gorista meestnost
lang: Catalan
word: bosc
lang: Catalan
word: arbrat
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 森林
roman: sēnlín
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 林地
roman: líndì
lang: Danish
word: træbevoksning
lang: Esperanto
word: arbaro
lang: Finnish
word: metsämaa
lang: Finnish
word: metsä
lang: French
word: bois
lang: Old French
word: boschage
lang: Galician
word: fraga
lang: Galician
word: lubre
lang: Galician
word: mouta
lang: Galician
word: vedrón
lang: Galician
word: vedramio
lang: Galician
word: védramo
lang: Galician
word: bosco
lang: Galician
word: bosque
lang: Galician
word: albogo
lang: Galician
word: longuialbreda
lang: Galician
word: calo
lang: German
word: Wald
lang: German
word: Forst
lang: German
word: Waldung
lang: German
word: Waldland
lang: Greenlandic
word: orpippalik
lang: Hungarian
word: erdőség
lang: Hungarian
word: erdős vidék
lang: Macedonian
word: ко́рија
roman: kórija
lang: Mòcheno
word: bòlt
lang: Persian
word: بیشه زار
roman: bišezâr
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Woolt
lang: Portuguese
word: mato
lang: Portuguese
word: mata
lang: Portuguese
word: bosque
lang: Romanian
word: pădure
lang: Romanian
word: codru
lang: Romanian
word: silvă
lang: Russian
word: леси́стая ме́стность
roman: lesístaja méstnostʹ
lang: Russian
word: лес
roman: les
lang: Sicilian
word: voscu
lang: Spanish
word: bosque
lang: Spanish
word: floresta
lang: Spanish
word: foresta
lang: Spanish
word: arboledo
lang: Spanish
word: boscaje
lang: Spanish
word: arbolado
lang: Tagalog
word: kakahuyan
lang: Ugaritic
word: 𐎊𐎓𐎗
roman: yʿr
lang: Welsh
word: coetir