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n. Land or an area of land of high elevation, especially when level.

n. Land in the interior of a country.

adj. Of, relating to, or located in an upland.

n. The area in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation; often hilly, but not generally mountainous (compare highlands).

adj. Of, relating to, or situated in the uplands.

n. High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally dry; -- opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh, swamp, interval, and the like.

n. The country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns.

adj. Of or pertaining to uplands; being on upland; high in situation.

adj. Pertaining to the country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns; rustic; rude; unpolished.

n. The region in the interior; inland districts; country as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns or populous districts.

n. The higher grounds of a district; ground elevated above meadows and valleys; slopes of hills, etc.

n. plural A grade of cotton. See cotton.

Of or pertaining to the inland districts, or the country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns.

Hence Rustic; countrified; rude; savage; uncivilized. Compare inland, 4.

Of or pertaining to uplands, or higher grounds: as, upland pasturage; also, frequenting uplands: as, the upland plover.

n. elevated (e.g., mountainous) land

adj. used of high or hilly country

"Do a bit of wingshooting ... same ethics apply, don't take the shot unless you can make the kill ... plenty of knuckleheads in upland and waterfowl areas where the definition of ethical is a bit more dynamic."

mountainous    alpestrine    subalpine    Alpine    upland plover   

lowland    meadow    marsh    swamp    interval   

inland    upland cotton    upland flake    upland goose    upland moccasin    upland mennonite    upland boneset    sandpiper   

uplandish    uplander   

rustic    rude    unpolished   

grassy    treeless    hillside    moorland    verdant    prairie    marshy    moonlit    steppe    undulate