Badlands

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • noun-plural. Barren land characterized by roughly eroded ridges, peaks, and mesas.
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  • n. An arid terrain characterized by severe erosion of sedimentary rocks.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by cañons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands).
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  • n. an eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska
  • n. an eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska
  • n. deeply eroded barren land
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    Words that are more generic or abstract
    geographic region    geographic area    geographical region    geographical area   
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    desert    moonscape    malpaís   
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