flatwoodsn.
/ˈflatwʊdz/ U.S.
Low-lying timber land; applied especially to types of well-wooded land in Ohio, Alabama, and Florida.
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wildwooda1122
rough1332
firth?a1400
tod stripec1446
osiard1509
bush1523
bush-ground1523
fritha1552
island1638
oak landc1658
pinelandc1658
piney wood1666
broom-land1707
pine barrenc1721
pine savannah1735
savannah1735
thick woods1754
scrub-land1779
olive wood1783
primeval forest1789
open wood1790
strong woods1792
scrub1805
oak flata1816
sertão1816
sprout-land1824
flatwoods1841
bush-land1842
tall timber1845
amber forest1846
caatinga1846
mahogany scrub1846
bush-flat1847
myall country1847
national forest1848
selva1849
monte1851
virgin forest1851
bush-country1855
savannah forest1874
bush-range1879
bushveld1879
protection forest1889
mulga1896
wood-bush1896
shinnery1901
fringing forest1903
monsoon forest1903
rainforest1903
savannah woodland1903
thorn forest1903
tropical rainforest1903
gallery forest1920
cloud forest1922
rain jungle1945
mato1968
1841 in Amer. Speech (1940) 15 179/1 Running up under the foot of the ridge to a large span oak tree and a forked sugar standing in a flat woods.
1888 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Story of Keedon Bluffs 169 The cattle.. had been..driven home to the farms in the ‘flat-woods’.
1908 R. W. Chambers Firing Line ix Where have you been for a week? In the flat-woods.
1908 R. W. Chambers Firing Line x Those lemon-tinted butterflies which haunt the Florida flat-woods.
1946 G. Wilson Fidelity Folks 95 We got to see funny people from up the creek and out in the Flatwoods.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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