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WOODLAND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Land that is covered with trees and shrubs
Synonyms:
forest; timber; timberland; woodland
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("woodland" is a kind of...):
biome (a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate)
dry land; earth; ground; land; solid ground; terra firma (the solid part of the earth's surface)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "woodland"):
greenwood (woodlands in full leaf)
riparian forest (woodlands along the banks of stream or river)
silva; sylva (the forest trees growing in a country or region)
tree farm (a forest (or part of a forest) where trees are grown for commercial use)
Instance hyponyms:
Black Forest; Schwarzwald (a hilly forest region in southwestern Germany)
Sherwood Forest (an ancient forest in central England; formerly a royal hunting ground; said to be the home of Robin Hood and his merry band)
Wilderness (a wooded region in northeastern Virginia near Spotsylvania where bloody but inconclusive battles were fought in the American Civil War)
Context examples:
And now vegetation matured with vigour; Lowood shook loose its tresses; it became all green, all flowery; its great elm, ash, and oak skeletons were restored to majestic life; woodland plants sprang up profusely in its recesses; unnumbered varieties of moss filled its hollows, and it made a strange ground-sunshine out of the wealth of its wild primrose plants: I have seen their pale gold gleam in overshadowed spots like scatterings of the sweetest lustre.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
“It is well,” said he, and with a shake of the bridle rode on down the woodland path.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Further on, at the edge of the woodland, he came upon a chapman and his wife, who sat upon a fallen tree.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They were pretty, blue-eyed, yellow-haired lads, well made and sturdy, with bronzed skins, which spoke of a woodland life.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Her jet-black hair was gathered back under a light pink coif, her head poised proudly upon her neck, and her step long and springy, like that of some wild, tireless woodland creature.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
From bye-path, from woodland clearing, or from winding moor-side track these little rivulets of steel united in the larger roads to form a broader stream, growing ever fuller and larger as it approached the nearest or most commodious seaport.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
All along the woodland track there did indeed run a scattered straggling trail of blood-marks, sometimes in single drops, and in other places in broad, ruddy gouts, smudged over the dead leaves or crimsoning the white flint stones.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
