SCABLANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scablands mean? 

• SCABLANDS (noun)
  The noun SCABLANDS has 1 sense:

1. (geology) flat elevated land with poor soil and little vegetation that is scarred by dry channels of glacial origin (especially in eastern Washington)

  Familiarity information: SCABLANDS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCABLANDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(geology) flat elevated land with poor soil and little vegetation that is scarred by dry channels of glacial origin (especially in eastern Washington)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("scablands" is a kind of...):

ground; land; soil (material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use))

Domain category:

geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

Holonyms ("scablands" is a part of...):

Evergreen State; WA; Wash.; Washington (a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific)