bushland

noun

bush·​land ˈbu̇sh-ˌland How to pronounce bushland (audio)

Examples of bushland in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The movie gets off to a strong start, with DP Sean Ryan’s camera capturing the sun beating down on bucolic bushland as two young Indigenous sisters sing while playing a clapping game and other children frolic in a nearby clearing. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 In dense bushland, visibility may be limited due to thick vegetation. Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 16 Nov. 2023 Starting fires is a common, though controversial, way of managing grasslands to stimulate lush new growth and to control the spread of bushland. Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2023 Most mature meadows are mowed at least once annually to prevent early succession shrubs and trees from taking hold and eventually altering the scene into a bushland, then forest. Tovah Martin, Washington Post, 21 June 2023 See the moment Air Wing located a woman, who was missing for five days in dense bushland. Tori Latham, Robb Report, 9 May 2023 This year, at a cost of around $120,000, 32 custom sprinklers were installed along the river in Yarra Bend Park, Melbourne’s largest natural bushland park and the location of the bats’ colony, which is about 35,000 strong in summertime. Natasha Frost, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023 Not that the police and rescue responders who came from all over N.T., far outnumbering the locals, ever established hard evidence of a crime, despite scouring the surrounding bushland on horseback and quad bikes, in helicopters and on foot with teams of sniffer dogs. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2023 Hot springs bubble by the lake shores and giant baobab trees, which the park’s leopards are inclined to climb, stand amid the bushland and forest. Lions are known to rest in the branches of the woodland’s trees and hippos bath in the shallow water before emerging to graze after dark. Lauren Jade Hill, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1827, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of bushland was in 1827

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“Bushland.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bushland. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.

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