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wild land

wild land is the alternative form of wildland.

Meaning of wildland

Noun

wildland (countable and uncountable, plural wildlands)

  1. Land that is unfit for, or has not been modified by, cultivation or other human activity; a natural area.
    • Whether it is in point of law competent for his Majesty, with the advice of and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of New Brunswick, to render the tracts of wildland in the colony which belong to his Majesty jure coronæ subject to the appropriation of the legislature of the province...1837, Lord Glenelg, question submitted to the law officers of the Crown in England, quoted in Justice Gwynne, opinion in Mercer v. Attorney General for Ontario, 1881, in Reports of the Supreme Court...

Forms of wild land

pluralwild lands

Questions about wild land

What is wild land the alternative form of?
Wild land is the alternative form of wildland.

Words near wild land in the dictionary

  1. wild hyacinth
  2. wild hyacinths
  3. wild indigo
  4. wild ipecacuanha
  5. wild Irishman
  6. wild land
  7. wild lands
  8. wild leek
  9. wild leeks
  10. wild lettuce
  11. wild lettuces

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