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woodland

adj
/ˈwʊd.lənd/

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”).

  1. inherited from wuduland — “woodland; forestland; forest”
  2. inherited from wodeland

Definitions

  1. Of a creature or object

    Of a creature or object: growing, living, or existing in a woodland.

    • The woodland creatures ran from the fire.
    • 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.

  2. Having the character of a woodland.

    • 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[…]

  3. Land covered with woody vegetation.

    • Meronym: woodlot
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. A surname.

    2. A village in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ0726).

    3. A hamlet in Kirkby Ireleth parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously…

      A hamlet in Kirkby Ireleth parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD2489).

    4. A hamlet in Teignbridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX7968).

    5. A number of places in the United States

      A number of places in the United States:

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Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at woodland. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at woodland. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at woodland

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA