badlands (noun)

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• badlands — ► PLURAL NOUN ▪ heavily eroded land on which little can grow or be grown …   English terms dictionary

• Badlands National Park — noun a national park in South Dakota having multicolored peaks and spires resulting from erosion; fossil sites • Instance Hypernyms: ↑national park • Part Holonyms: ↑South Dakota, ↑Coyote State, ↑Mount Rushmore State, ↑SD * * * a national park in …   Useful english dictionary

• badlands — noun An arid terrain characterized by severe erosion of sedimentary rocks. Syn: desert, moonscape, malpaís …   Wiktionary

• Badlands — noun , a national park in South Dakota …   Wiktionary

• badlands — noun (plural) an area of unproductive land in North America with rocks and hills that have been worn into strange shapes by the weather …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• badlands — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. waste, wilderness, desert; see waste 3 . See Synonym Study at waste . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. wasteland, eroded land, desert, *devil s backyard, *devil s sandbox, barren land. III (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A… …   English dictionary for students

• badlands — bad|lands [ bæd,lændz ] noun plural areas of land where nothing grows and there are only rocks, especially in North America …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• badlands — plural noun extensive tracts of heavily eroded, uncultivable land with little vegetation …   English new terms dictionary

• badlands — UK [ˈbædˌlændz] / US noun [plural] areas of land where nothing grows and there are only rocks, especially in North America …   English dictionary

• badlands — /ˈbædlændz/ (say badlandz) plural noun US a barren area in which soft rock strata are eroded into varied, fantastic forms. {from the French translation, Mauvaises Terres pour traverser, of the Native American name} …  

• South Dakota — noun a state in north central United States (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑Coyote State, ↑Mount Rushmore State, ↑SD • Instance Hypernyms: ↑American state • Part Holonyms: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary