Heathland is an English word with synonyms like heath or barren. Below you'll find 7 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Heathland meaning
A tract of scrubland habitats characterised by open, low growing woody vegetation, found on mainly infertile acidic soils. Similar to moorland but with warmer and drier climate.
Using Heathland
- The main meaning on this page is: A tract of scrubland habitats characterised by open, low growing woody vegetation, found on mainly infertile acidic soils. Similar to moorland but with warmer and drier climate.
- Useful related words include: heath, barren, waste, wasteland.
- In the example corpus, heathland often appears in combinations such as: heathland is, of heathland.
Context around Heathland
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 3 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 7 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Heathland
- In this selection, "heathland" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, mallee, once, way and grassland stand out and add context to how "heathland" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include acres of heathland grassland and and heath or heathland is an. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "heathland" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aaba and aafc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with heathland
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It covers more than 200 hectares (494 acres) of heathland, grassland and woodland. (13 words)
The incident happened in the early hours of Saturday morning on Heathland Way, Llandarcy. (14 words)
James Lawrence, Sandscapes project manager said: “Heathland, once a widespread and common component of the landscape in the Midlands, is now isolated and fragmented. (24 words)
Until a few decades ago Kempen was a region of heathland and sand drifts with a sparse growth of pines, a few scattered villages subsisting on the poor soil and some small towns; and this is still the pattern in much of the region. (44 words)
The heathland is home to a range of wildlife including the Willow Warbler, a ground-nesting bird which arrives at Kinver Edge during the spring after flying more than 5,000 miles from Africa to the UK. (37 words)
In many parts of the world, a " heath " or "heathland" is an environment characterised by an open dwarf- shrub community found on low-quality acidic soils, generally dominated by plants in the Ericaceae. (33 words)
Example sentences (7)
James Lawrence, Sandscapes project manager said: “Heathland, once a widespread and common component of the landscape in the Midlands, is now isolated and fragmented.
The heathland is home to a range of wildlife including the Willow Warbler, a ground-nesting bird which arrives at Kinver Edge during the spring after flying more than 5,000 miles from Africa to the UK.
The incident happened in the early hours of Saturday morning on Heathland Way, Llandarcy.
It covers more than 200 hectares (494 acres) of heathland, grassland and woodland.
Flora and fauna The vegetation of the park ranges from pure mallee heathland in the Eastern Block to cypress pine and casuarina woodlands in the moister Western Block.
In many parts of the world, a " heath " or "heathland" is an environment characterised by an open dwarf- shrub community found on low-quality acidic soils, generally dominated by plants in the Ericaceae.
Until a few decades ago Kempen was a region of heathland and sand drifts with a sparse growth of pines, a few scattered villages subsisting on the poor soil and some small towns; and this is still the pattern in much of the region.
Common combinations with heathland
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- heathland is 2×
- of heathland 2×