farmlands

noun

plural of farmland
as in farms

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Recent Examples of farmlands At their regular density levels in Australian farmlands, the researchers estimated that brown snakes alone might remove thousands of mice annually for every square kilometer of farmland. — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for farmlands
  1. farms
  2. ranches
  3. farmsteads
  4. plantations
Noun
  • Few farms are affected by the tax, which already included some exemptions for agriculture.
    — Jack Harvel, Kansas City Star, 2 Nov. 2026
  • Data centers could be the next foundational infrastructure, like the railroads, power plants and farms before them.
    — Karishma Mandal, Forbes.com, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of farms
Noun
  • Today, shooters working for Maui Nui Venison take deer from private ranches each night.
    — Tovar Cerulli, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026
  • State regulations addressing animal disposal primarily cover agricultural settings, such as farms and ranches.
    — Angela Rodriguez, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026
Definition of ranches
Noun
  • Some of the worst cases of the syndrome, for instance, have been on poor farmsteads in South Africa’s Eastern Cape.
    — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • Settlements and farmsteads spread across the state, and each year the timbermen marched deeper into the woods.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
Definition of farmsteads
Noun
  • The trees are the legacy of coconut plantations established more than a century ago.
    — Lauren Sommer, NPR, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Among those rescued were a female orangutan known as Mama Man and her infant, Man, who had been monitored for months in a small forest patch surrounded by plantations.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of plantations

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