Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An elevated area of barren rocky land with little or no soil cover, often crossed by dry stream channels. Often used in the plural: the scablands of eastern Washington.
Wiktionary
- n. US, geography High, flat land of igneous rock, with thin soil and deep channels formed by glaciers or glacial floods.
Etymologies
- From scab + land. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The Turnbull Wildlife Refuge protects 16,000 acres of scabland habitat near Cheney.”
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Landforms
A Cyclopedia of Landforms.
plain, mountain, canyon, cliff, hill, arch, cave, plateau, mesa, butte, chimney, peneplain and 169 more...
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Land
A list of terms for land, landholdings, or words that contain the string -land-.
scabland, wheatland, cornland, slander, land-locked, dryland, riceland, clandestine, acreage, island, Iceland, Greenland and 269 more...
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The Road
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glaucoma, tarpaulin, ford, ratchet, slutlamp, mote, shoring, gryke, riprap, transom, manila, cleat and 68 more...
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