Meaning

Of a creature or object: growing, living, or existing in a woodland..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of a creature or object: growing, living, or existing in a woodland.
2. (obsolete) Having the character of a woodland.
3. (loosely) Land covered with woody vegetation.

Example Sentences

The woodland creatures ran from the fire.

This species [[[w:Red-bellied Woodpecker|Red-bellied Woodpecker]]] is a very little larger than the red-headed one; and it is more woodland in its manners; seldom appearing in orchards or near houses, but keeping to the tall trees in the close forests.

The genera Philomela and Curruca, as we previously observed, are very closely allied to each other, both are woodland in their habits, and both possess great melody of song.

It was a couple of hundred years or so more before I saw a third bullfinch — which didn't surprise me, for bullfinches are very woodland birds, and non-migratory into the bargain — so that they didn’t often get blown seaward over the broad Atlantic.

As its name implies, this species Woodlark] is a more woodland bird than the other British Larks, and in many of its ways of life it resembles the Tree Pipit, frequenting the neighborhood of woods and plantations, but always affecting trees.

It is a very woodland country, with plenty of grass, but it is too large for four days a-week, and the sport is generally rather indifferent.

[…] understanding that their next fixture was in a very woodland country, and at a distance, I deferred this pleasure to another opportunity.

Shortly after leaving Swindon the main line enters Wiltshire, and runs through an extremely woodland district to Chippenham[…]

Word Forms

• more woodland
• most woodland
• woodlands

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Use woodland when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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