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   What does Moorland mean?

   • Moorland, nowadays, generally means uncultivated hill land (such as Dartmoor in South West England), but also includes low-lying wetlands (such as Sedgemoor, also South West England). It is closely related to heath, although experts disagree on what precisely distinguishes these types of vegetation.

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   What does Moor mean?

   • For other uses, see Moorland (disambiguation). Moorland or moor is a type of habitat found in upland areas in temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands and montane grasslands and shrublands biomes, characterised by low-growing vegetation on acidic soils.

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   What is a moorland landscape?

   • Moorland generally refers to open upland landscapes dominated by heather and maintained through human management. It is found above the limit of enclosed agricultural land and below the theoretical climatic tree line at about 600m (the tree line is, however, largely absent in the UK, with woodland having been replaced by moorland at this altitude).

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   What is moorland used for?

   • Moorland is generally used for hill farming, with extensive areas also managed for game shooting. Both may include burning, which promotes the growth of young, fresh heather shoots for livestock and red grouse.

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   What is a Moor in Scotland?

   • Scottish "muirs" are generally heather moors, but also have extensive covering of grass, cotton-grass, mosses, bracken and under-shrubs such as crowberry, with the wetter moorland having sphagnum moss merging into bog-land. [ 1 ] There is uncertainty about how many moors were created by human activity.

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   What is moorland based on?

   • Moorland forms the setting of various works of late Romantic English literature, ranging from the Yorkshire moorland in Emily Brontë 's Wuthering Heights and The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett to Dartmoor in Arthur Conan Doyle 's Holmesian mystery The Hound of the Baskervilles.

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   Moorland, nowadays, generally means uncultivated hill land (such as Dartmoor in South West England), but also includes low-lying wetlands (such as Sedgemoor, also South West England). It is closely related to heath, although experts disagree on what precisely distinguishes these types of vegetation.

3. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishMOORLAND | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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   MOORLAND | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary. Meaning of moorland in English. moorland. noun [ C or U ] uk / ˈmɔː.lənd / / ˈmʊə.lənd / us / ˈmʊr.lənd / Add to word list. an area of moor. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Geography: deserts, prairies & wildernesses. alpine tundra. brush. bush. Bushman. desert. dust bowl. heathland.

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   Moorland generally refers to open upland landscapes dominated by heather and maintained through human management. It is found above the limit of enclosed agricultural land and below the theoretical climatic tree line at about 600m (the tree line is, however, largely absent in the UK, with woodland having been replaced by moorland at this altitude).

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   The meaning of MOORLAND is land consisting of moors : a stretch of moor. How to use moorland in a sentence.

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   What does the word moorland mean? There are four meanings listed in OED's entry for the word moorland, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. This word is used in British English. See meaning & use. How common is the word moorland?

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   Moorland definition: an area of moors, especially country abounding in heather.. See examples of MOORLAND used in a sentence.

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   noun. chiefly Brit. an area of moors, esp. country abounding in heather. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC. Modified entries © 2019 by Penguin Random House LLC and HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Word origin. [bef. 950; ME more lond, OE mōrlond. See moor 1, -land] Examples of 'moorland' in a sentence. moorland.