moonscape

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noun Freq #158952

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    A desolate or devastated landscape.

    In the Australian outback, industrial activity — notably open-pit coal mining — has turned verdant areas into moonscapes seemingly overnight, and the suicide rate in the region has skyrocketed.

  2. 2
    noun

    A view of an area of the Moon.

Etymology

From moon + -scape.

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