Landscape Terms

Nicholas Franco (United States of America)
Landscape Descriptions
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  1. cress
    any of various plants of the family Cruciferae with edible leaves that have a pungent taste
  2. dale
    an open valley in a hilly area
  3. dell
    a small wooded hollow
  4. fen
    low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation
  5. fosse
    ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water
  6. glade
    a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area
  7. glen
    a narrow secluded valley (in the mountains)
  8. heather
    a low purple-flowered plant grown in the northern hemisphere
  9. mead
    made of fermented honey and water
  10. mere
    being nothing more than specified
  11. sloe
    a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits
  12. swale
    a low-lying area, especially a marshy area between ridges
  13. sward
    surface layer of ground containing a mat of grass and grass roots
  14. vale
    a valley
  15. wold
    a tract of open rolling country (especially upland)
  16. ravine
    a deep narrow steep-sided valley
  17. bluff
    a high steep bank
  18. chasm
    a deep opening in the earth's surface
  19. defile
    make dirty or spotty
  20. loess
    a fine accumulation of clay and silt deposited by the wind
Created on Mon Nov 15 15:21:32 EST 2010 (updated Thu Dec 13 15:24:04 EST 2018)

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