badlandsnoun [ plural ]
uk/ˈbæd.lændz/us/ˈbæd.lændz/a dry area without plants and with large rocks that the weather has worn into strange shapes, especially the area like this in Dakota and Nebraska in the US
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Geography: deserts, prairies & wildernesses
- Bushman
- common
- desert
- dust bowl
- marginal land
- meadow
- moor
- moorland
- pampas
- plain
- scrub
- steppe
- sward
- tall-grass prairie
- the outback
- tundra
- undeveloped
- waste
- wasteland
- wild
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