moorland
Open boggy highlands
Moorland is open, uncultivated upland terrain, typically covered with heather, coarse grasses, and low shrubs.
The landscape is often boggy, windswept, and treeless—characteristic of parts of Britain, especially Yorkshire and Scotland.
We hiked across the moorland in driving rain.
The word is essentially synonymous with moor but emphasizes the terrain as a type of land rather than a specific place.
Moorland flowering shrub
- lingHeath plant or fish
- gorseThorny yellow-flowering shrub
- brackenCoarse, spreading fern
- broomBristled cleaning stick
bilberry · heath · shrubland · scrub · cotton grass · crowberry · whortleberry · furze
Elevated land area
- fellsCuts or knocks down
- hillsLow natural elevations
- plateauFlat highland area
- expanseUnbroken area of space
horizon · windswept · barren · rugged · treeless · rolling · bleak · openness
State of being alone
- desolationState of complete emptiness
- remotenessQuality of being faraway
- wildernessUncultivated, uninhabited natural region
- isolationComplete separation from others
silence · emptiness · bleakness · wildness · melancholy · brooding · haunting · timeless
Waterlogged decomposed vegetation
- sphagnumAbsorbent bog moss
- mireBoggy, waterlogged terrain
- quagmireSoft, wet ground
- marshySaturated with standing water
fen · waterlogged · soggy · morass · slough · muskeg · squelchy · hummock
Upland region in Devon
- ExmoorSouthwest English national park
- PenninesEnglish upland range
- BrontëLiterary sisters' surname
- Wuthering HeightsYorkshire gothic novel
pony · rambling · rights of way · gamekeeper · tweed · cairn · boundary stone · sheep farming
heather
Moorland flowering shrub
broom · bilberry · heath · shrubland · scrub · cotton grass · crowberry · whortleberry · furze
upland
Elevated land area
expanse · horizon · windswept · barren · rugged · treeless · rolling · bleak · openness · vastness
solitude
State of being alone
- desolationState of complete emptiness
- remotenessQuality of being faraway
- wildernessUncultivated, uninhabited natural region
isolation · silence · emptiness · bleakness · wildness · melancholy · brooding · haunting · timeless · elemental
peat
Waterlogged decomposed vegetation
marshy · fen · waterlogged · soggy · morass · slough · muskeg · squelchy · hummock · peat bog
Dartmoor
Upland region in Devon
Wuthering Heights · pony · rambling · rights of way · gamekeeper · tweed · cairn · boundary stone · sheep farming
grouse
Fowl or fuss
skylark · red deer · sheep · adder · lizard · hare · vole · wheatear · sundew · butterwort
- PenninesYorkshire Dales, Wensleydale, limestone pavement, gritstone, peat bogs
- upland farminghefting, shepherding, sheep grazing, lambing, Herdwick sheep
- European natureAlps, Pyrenees, Carpathians, Balkans, Mediterranean
- landscapesmountain, valley, hills, landscape, scenery
- British Countrysidehedgerow, village, hedgerows, hamlet, fields
- grasslandsgrassland, prairie, steppe, savanna, pampas
moorlandfarmland
Agricultural terrain
cropland · agricultural land · arable land · plantation · orchard
moorlandforest
Tree-dense ecosystem
woodland · jungle · dense forest · rainforest · timberland
moorlandlowland
Low-elevation flat land
valley · fertile plain · floodplain · river valley · bottomland