moorland

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   open, uncultivated land with acidic or peaty soil, typically covered with heather, grasses, or bracken

   A narrow track crossed the windswept moorland above the village.

From Middle English morelond, a compound of moor + land. Moor descends from Old English mor, 'waste ground, marsh, or upland heath,' while land descends from Old English land. Old Norse myrlendi, also meaning 'moorland,' is a close Germanic parallel rather than the direct source.

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