woodland

adj

1. Of a creature or object: growing, living, or existing in a woodland.

   “The woodland creatures ran from the fire.”

   “This species [[[w:Red-bellied Woodpecker|Red-bellied Woodpecker]]] is a very little larger than the red-headed one; and it is more woodland in its manners; seldom appearing in orchards or near houses, but keeping to the tall trees in the close forests.”

   “The genera Philomela and Curruca, as we previously observed, are very closely allied to each other, both are woodland in their habits, and both possess great melody of song.”

   “It was a couple of hundred years or so more before I saw a third bullfinch — which didn't surprise me, for bullfinches are very woodland birds, and non-migratory into the bargain — so that they didn’t often get blown seaward over the broad Atlantic.”

   “As its name implies, this species Woodlark] is a more woodland bird than the other British Larks, and in many of its ways of life it resembles the Tree Pipit, frequenting the neighborhood of woods and plantations, but always affecting trees.”

2. (obsolete)Having the character of a woodland.

   “It is a very woodland country, with plenty of grass, but it is too large for four days a-week, and the sport is generally rather indifferent.”

   “[…] understanding that their next fixture was in a very woodland country, and at a distance, I deferred this pleasure to another opportunity.”

   “Shortly after leaving Swindon the main line enters Wiltshire, and runs through an extremely woodland district to Chippenham[…]”

noun

1. (broadly, uncountable, usually)Land covered with woody vegetation.

   “Meronym: woodlot”

   “Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, / Here earth and water ſeem to ſtrive again ; / Not Chaos-like together cruſh’d and bruis’d, / But, as the world, harmoniouſly confus’d : / Where order in variety we ſee, / And where, tho’ all things differ, all agree.”

   “The earth glows with the colors of 1837 civilization ; the banks of the streams are enamelled with richest grasses ; woodlands and cultivated fields are harmoniously blended ; the birds of spring find their delight in orchards and trim gardens, variegated with choicest plants from every temperate zone ; while the brilliant flowers of the tropics bloom from the windows of the green-house and the saloon.”

   “Much as one appreciates the beauty of these woodlands, it was good to learn that some discreet tree-felling may open up the view still further.”

   “Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.”

2. (broadly, uncountable, usually)Land covered with woody vegetation.

   “Near-synonym: grove”

name

1. A surname.
2. A village in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ0726).
3. A hamlet in Kirkby Ireleth parish, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England, previously in South Lakeland district (OS grid ref SD2489).
4. A hamlet in Teignbridge district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX7968).
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