n. A tract of scrubland habitats characterised by open, low growing woody vegetation, found on mainly infertile acidic soils. Similar to moorland but with warmer and drier climate.
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n. a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation
Word Usage
"The environment we were working in was called heathland."