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Recent Examples of bottomland
The national park protects the largest intact old-growth bottomland hardwood forest in the Southeast, with stands of 500-year-old bald cypress trees, loblolly pines that stretch 165 feet in the air, and towering elm, oaks, tupelos, and sweet gums.
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Graham Averill, Outside Online, 16 Sep. 2024
But the narrow valley with a meandering river threading its way along the bottomlands was also determined to be a good place to bring electricity to Siskiyou County and other parts of Northern California and Southern Oregon.
—Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 22 June 2024
Piggott, circa 1910: The land that made up much of Clay County was once filled with great bottomland forests.
—Ray Hanley, arkansasonline.com, 18 June 2024
Here's how At Canyon de Chelly National Monument in northeastern Arizona, sheer cliffs plunge hundreds of feet to lush bottomlands lined with crops, pastures and cottonwood trees.
—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2024
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Graham Averill, Outside Online, 16 Sep. 2024
But the narrow valley with a meandering river threading its way along the bottomlands was also determined to be a good place to bring electricity to Siskiyou County and other parts of Northern California and Southern Oregon.
—Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 22 June 2024
Piggott, circa 1910: The land that made up much of Clay County was once filled with great bottomland forests.
—Ray Hanley, arkansasonline.com, 18 June 2024
Here's how At Canyon de Chelly National Monument in northeastern Arizona, sheer cliffs plunge hundreds of feet to lush bottomlands lined with crops, pastures and cottonwood trees.
—Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bottomland
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Scientists suspect that circular mounds found in the northern lowlands of the Red Planet are likely akin to mud volcanoes on Earth.—
Stefanie Waldek,
Space.com,
18 Jan. 2025
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While those species stick to the lowlands of savannahs and coastal forests, the clouded-tiger cat is only found in the mountains of Central and South America.—
Jonathan Lambert,
NPR,
31 Dec. 2024
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The area around it is a unique and delicate ecosystem that includes estuaries and coastal grasslands, mud flats and more, where falcons, hawks, ravens, gulls and songbirds live.—
Robert A. Kopack,
The Conversation,
17 Jan. 2025
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The species is widespread across Ethiopia and known to inhabit woodlands and grasslands.—
Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
17 Jan. 2025
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Shh—hear the mountains murmur? Peripatetic prairies slowly creep across the globe.—
Daniel Galef,
Scientific American,
15 Oct. 2024
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Thousands of years ago, southern Wisconsin transitioned from a closed-canopy oak forest to an oak savanna—in an open prairie, oaks, instead of growing straight and tall, branch too early for canoe-making.—
Jacqueline Kehoe,
Smithsonian Magazine,
26 Dec. 2024
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Around the turn of the century, Israel’s forestry department converted part of the Negev Desert into a savanna, planting trees in a mosaic of natural and altered patches to boost species diversity.—
Cody Cottier,
Discover Magazine,
30 Sep. 2024
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They are found in forests, savannas and wetlands of West Africa.—
Elizabeth Gamillo,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 Jan. 2025
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Evidence of Mumbai’s colonial past can be found in the city’s chawls, rickety tenement flats stacked upon each other like depressing LEGO blocks.—
John Metcalfe,
The Mercury News,
15 Jan. 2025
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Following the dinner, guests relax by a campfire on the tidal flats to enjoy dessert with a view of the incoming tide.—
Caitlin Palumbo,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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Green Bay is favored in this game, and playing at the freezing tundra of Lambeau Field should help things.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
23 Dec. 2024
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What's next: The tundra carbon finding is a signal of other fundamental shifts yet to come across the Arctic.—
Andrew Freedman,
Axios,
11 Dec. 2024
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Seventeen-year-old Randy (Laurel Holloman) is a baby butch who enjoys long chain smokes in meadows and illicit tumbles with her married girlfriend in between shifts at the gas station.—
Sadie Collins,
Them,
24 Jan. 2025
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The trail takes hikers across a large meadow and then up to a gap between the First and Second Flatiron, according to AllTrails.—
Lauren Penington,
The Denver Post,
17 Dec. 2024
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“Bottomland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bottomland. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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