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Bad Lands

Bad Lands is the archaic form of badlands.

Meaning of badlands

Noun

badlands (plural badlands)

  1. An arid terrain characterized by severe erosion of sedimentary rocks.
    • Not only do the Bad Lands present a most attractive field to the student of erosion and of the origin of earth forms, but their deathlike solitudes have been made to yield the most wonderful procession of strange extinct animals yet unearthed by geologists.1904, Israel C. Russell, North America, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 111
    Synonyms:
    malpais
  2. (Alberta, Saskatchewan) An arid region of Western Canada characterized by significant erosion and odd land formations containing dinosaur and other fossils.

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Forms of Bad Lands

pluralBad Lands

Questions about Bad Lands

What is Bad Lands the archaic form of?
Bad Lands is the archaic form of badlands.

Words near Bad Lands in the dictionary

  1. bad iron
  2. Bad Ischl
  3. bad joke
  4. bad jokes
  5. Bad Kreuznach
  6. Bad Lands
  7. bad language
  8. bad leaver
  9. bad leavers
  10. bad light
  11. bad looker

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