noun
definition
Land covered with woody vegetation.
adjective
definition
Of a creature or object: growing, living, or existing in a woodland.
example
The woodland creatures ran from the fire.
definition
Having the character of a woodland.
Examples of woodland in a Sentence
There are three main zones of woodland.
One early thrush gave me a note or two as I drove along the woodland path.
These is much woodland, but meadows and pastures are rare.
Formerly nearly the whole of Muttra consisted of pasture and woodland, but the roads constructed as relief works in1837-1838have thrown open many large tracts of country, and the task of reclamation has since proceeded rapidly.
I tried to imagine my gentle poet when he was a school-boy, and I wondered if it was in Andover he learned the songs of the birds and the secrets of the shy little woodland children.
Morton Park contains 200 acres of woodland bordering the shores of Billington Sea (a freshwater lake).
The wild boar is still found in Europe, in marshy woodland districts where there is plenty of cover, and it is fairly plentiful in Spain, Austria, Russia and Germany, particularly in the Black Forest.
In the Pasud taluk, however, there are wide stretches of woodland, while some of the peaks rise to a height of 2000 ft., the scenery (especially during the rains) being very beautiful.
Plymouth is a popular resort for visitors,, having, in addition to its wealth of historic associations and a healthy summer climate, thousands of acres of hilly woodland and numerous lakes and ponds well stocked with fish.
Of game birds the most characteristic is the partridge (ruffed grouse), exclusively a woodland bird; the Wilson's snipe and the woodcock are not uncommon in favourable localities, and several species of ducks are found especially in the bays and marshes near the coast during the seasons of migration.
The total woodland area of the state according to the United States census of 1900 was 54,300 sq.
When all outside is cold and white, when the little children of the woodland are gone to their nurseries in the warm earth, and the empty nests on the bare trees fill with snow, my window-garden glows and smiles, making summer within while it is winter without.
I have my horizon bounded by woods all to myself; a distant view of the railroad where it touches the pond on the one hand, and of the fence which skirts the woodland road on the other.
On the temperate uplands of the southern states there are imposing forests of South American pine (Araucaria brasiliensis), whose bare trunks and umbrella-like tops give to them the appearance of open woodland.
Except on some portions of the Pocono plateau, Pennsylvania was originally well forested, and, although most of the merchantable timber has been cut, about one-half of the state is still woodland.
The Shire hounds include the Belvoir, the Cottesmore, the Quorn and the Pytchleys; for besides the Pytchley proper, there is a pack distinguished as the Woodland.
In woodland countries, however, a good whipper-in is really of almost as much importance as the huntsman himself; if he is not alert the hounds are likely to divide, as when running a little wide they are apt to put up a fresh fox.
No less than 43.17% of the total area is occupied by woodland, and the very name of the country is derived from the abundance of beech trees.
The leading species of the Appalachian woodland maintain their full vigour of growth nearer to the margin of forest growth in this part of the Mississippi valley than in any other part of the United States; and some species, such as the holly, the osage orange and the pecan, attain their fullest growth in Arkansas (Shaler).
It is undulating, rocky, picturesque, and in great part barren, though there are some extensive tracts of woodland; its elevation is generally 600 ft.
At least the coniferous forests which make up nine-tenths of California's woodland surpass all others known in number of species and in the size and beauty of the trees.
Of the great church hardly any fragments rise above ground-level, but the chapter-house, refectory and cloisters remain in part, and the ivy-clad ruins stand in a beautiful setting of woodland.
Several thousand lakes of clear water, formed by glacial action, dot the surface of the state, and many of them are lined with picturesque woodland shores.
This is the great forest area of the state; it contains about 1,200,000 acres of woodland, practically continuous, and portions of it still but sparsely inhabited.
A comparatively mild climate and good market facilities increase the potential value of the whole woodland area.
The quiet beauty of the rural country in the south, where the barren Bunter pebble-beds have never invited agriculture, and where considerable vestiges of the old woodland still remain in and near Sherwood Forest, has attracted so many seats of the landed aristocracy as to earn for that part the familiar name of " the Dukeries."
The entire woodland area of the state was estimated at 41,000 sq.
East of the Neosho river the prairies merge into a hilly woodland.
The total woodland area of the state was estimated in 1900 at 24,400 sq.
Of the details of the English conquest of the district which is now Lincolnshire little is known, but at some time in the 6th century Engle and Frisian invaders appear to have settled in the country north of the Witham, where they became known as the Lindiswaras, the southern districts from Boston to the Trent basin being at this time dense woodland.
Among the charitable institutions are Blessing Hospital (1875), St Mary's Hospital (1867; in charge of the Sisters of the Poor of St Francis), the Woodland Home for Orphans and Friendless (1853), St Aloysius Orphans' Home (1865), and several homes for the aged and infirm.
Painstakingly, the men and women visited each and every building in an incredibly wide area while dogs sniffed the surrounding woodland for bodies or a recent grave.
The land holding comprises 93 acres of ancient woodland.
The park comprises over 700 acres of parkland, lakes and woodland.
The farm was a curious mixture of pasture, woodland and water.
By using locally indigenous species we can promote hedgerow restoration and creation throughout the area to provide visual and ecological links between existing and proposed woodland areas.
Usually found on lowland woodland margins on slightly acidic soils.
Fritton Lake Woodland Lodges are in a peaceful woodland setting adjoining the lake.
At the back of the garden there will be modern woodland planting including angelica, ferns, Libertia and blueberry bushes.
Both species of lime are present, indicating the antiquity of the woodland.
A small arboretum leads into the woodland area with a non-alkaline soil.
The secondary woodland includes stands of mature aspen and willow carr.
The glen provides a good barometer for the extent of native woodland in the landscape.
The reserve's woodland is predominantly oak - many of which are magnificent old pollards - with some areas dominated by beech.
The predominant tree is oak, many arising from coppice shoots from an earlier woodland, and there are some planted beech.
Current Status Biological status lowland beech and yew woodland spans a variety of distinctive vegetation types reflecting differences in soil and topographical conditions.
Calcareous beech and yew woodland forms perhaps 40% of the total amount of lowland beech and yew habitat type defined above.
They also visit beekeepers I remote miombo woodland and get to know Africans as friends.
The woodland is of regional importance as it contains many important plants such as giant bellflower and early purple orchid.
It is Britain's most abundant fern and started its take-over bid as early settlers slashed and burned clearings in woodland across Britain.