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scrubland

noun

Definition of scrubland

as in forest

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Recent Examples of scrubland Somewhere in the Texas scrubland sits a shed the size of several football fields, packed with billions of dollars' worth of computer chips and drawing the power of a small city. — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026 Thursday night’s detonation of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket during a static-fire test produced a spectacular fireball over Florida, sending shards of the rocket flying far and wide, into the sea and across the coastal scrubland nearby. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 29 May 2026 So is neighboring Idaho, home to a federal nuclear lab, and Utah, where Governor Spencer Cox recently staged a press conference in the barren scrubland west of Salt Lake City. — Kirk Siegler, NPR, 2 May 2026 The Church of Latter-Day Saints (which provided much of the original scrubland for the Inland Port) is welcoming of immigrants and has helped settle generations of refugees and international converts to the Mormon faith. — Nick Miroff, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for scrubland

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Noun

Capital takes no responsibility for the exhaustion of the soil or the destruction of the forests.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 July 2026
Expect days filled with whale-watching, bear-spotting, biking, and rain-forest trekking.

— Laura Dannen Redman, Robb Report, 23 July 2026

Definition of forest

Noun

Stepping on stems is attention-getting, but the result is a wine that echoes the chaparral of the hillsides surrounding the vineyard.

— Laura Ness, Mercury News, 5 July 2026
An adventure among the mustangs, the chaparrals, the arroyos, the wide purple this and that.

— Padgett Powell, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026

Definition of chaparral

Noun

That lack of standardization leads to layers of bureaucracy for patients; moving to a new plan can ensnare patients in a thicket of red tape, keeping them from care.

— Renuka Rayasam, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 July 2026
These traits alone don’t make this tree invasive, but the trees began cross-pollinating with other pear species, whose offspring create thorny thickets that smother native plants and habitat.

— Erica Browne Grivas, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 July 2026

Definition of thicket

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Archaeologists found that the site’s foragers had crafted small huts from brushwood, weaving them into dome-like structures enclosing a central hearth.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 May 2026
Here, the train rolls into one of Scotland’s most remote stations, arriving via a line built up on a raft of roots and brushwood because traditional foundations failed in the boggy ground.

— Rosie Conroy, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Mar. 2026

Definition of brushwood

Noun

Growers are experimenting with commercial groves of chocolate, vanilla and coffee with some success.

— Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026
The lush grounds also include a 70-foot pool with an inset spa, a Baja ledge, and water features, along with a freestanding infrared sauna and meandering pathways winding through gardens and citrus groves.

— Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 23 July 2026

Definition of grove

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Marmots, woodland creatures whose raw viscera are believed by Siberians to have medicinal properties, are not infrequently hunted by poachers and sold at wet markets.

— Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026
The experts also said that the area would perform better ecologically thanks to projects like planting pockets of wet woodland.

— Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 24 July 2026

Definition of woodland

Noun

The two most straightforward of the trials will involve large-scale planting of trees and bioenergy crops, including Miscanthus grasses and coppice willow, reports Robert Lea for AZoCleanTech.

— Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 May 2021
Another strategy, called short rotation coppice, involves planting fast-growing trees such as willows and poplars in extremely dense rows.

— Eric Toensmeier, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020

Definition of coppice

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