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chalkland

chalkland noun: land in which the underlying geology is chalk.

Noun

chalkland (countable and uncountable, plural chalklands)

  1. Land in which the underlying geology is chalk.
    • Historians have frequently neglected the other demesne animals that were an important part of chalkland farming.2011, John Hare, A Prospering Society: Wiltshire in the Later Middle Ages, page 70

Forms of chalkland

pluralchalklands

Origin of chalkland

From chalk + land.

Questions about chalkland

What does chalkland mean?
Chalkland means land in which the underlying geology is chalk.
What part of speech is chalkland?
Chalkland is a noun.
What is the plural of chalkland?
The plural of chalkland is chalklands.

Words near chalkland in the dictionary

  1. chalking something up to experience
  2. chalking up
  3. chalking up to
  4. chalkings
  5. chalkitis
  6. chalkland
  7. chalklands
  8. chalkless
  9. Chalkley
  10. Chalkleys
  11. chalklike

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