moorland's Usage Examples:

Risk workshop report - Peak District (moorland wildfires) (pdf, 317KB ).

) and Whitecoomb (2695), whence the Clyde, Tweed, Annan, and Moffat Water descend, the high moorlands have been scarped into gloomy corries, with crags and talus-slopes, which form a series of landscapes all the more striking from the abrupt and unexpected contrast which they offer to everything around them.

Although there are long stretches of marshy moorland along the coast, the soil is on the whole productive.

This boulder sand forms almost everywhere the highest hills, and besides, in the central part of Jutland, a wide expanse of heath and moorland apparently level, but really sloping gently towards the west.

Higher still lies the moorland zone, where a cover of giant heather is studded with otherworldly giant lobelias.

Distinguished especially by the smoothness of their surface, they may be regarded as a roiling tableland or moorland, traversed by many valleys conducting the drainage to the sea.

The greatest extent of moorland is found in the westernmost parts of the plain, in Oldenburg and East Frisia.

The moorland is capped with hundreds of exposed granite hilltops (known as tors ), providing habitats for Dartmoor wildlife.

Risk workshop report - Peak District (moorland wildfires) (pdf, 317KB).

Only about 5% was unproductive soil or moorland.

The ruins of stone pele towers are found in the surrounding moorland.

Synonyms:

champaign, plain, field, moor,

Antonyms:

pretentious, adorned, cheer, undock, unfasten,