Woodland vs Meadow - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between woodland and meadow

is that woodland is land covered with woody vegetation while meadow is a field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay; an area of low-lying vegetation, especially near a river.

As an adjective woodland

is of or pertaining to a creature or object growing, living, or existing in a woodland.

As a proper noun Meadow is

a town in Texas.

woodland

English

(wikipedia woodland)

Noun

(en noun)

Land covered with woody vegetation.

* Alexander Pope

Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, / Here earth and water seem to strive again.

* Bancroft

Woodlands and cultivated fields are harmoniously blended.

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, title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands .}}

Synonyms

* timberland * forest

Adjective

(en adjective)

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

The woodland creatures ran from the fire.

* 1837 , “Picus''”, in Charles Frederick Partington (editor), ''The British Cyclopædia of Natural History , Volume 3, W. S. Orr & Co., page 446:

This species [ 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.

* 1839 , , The Natural History of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, Part II: Incessories'', part of ''The Naturalist's Library , W.H. Lizars, page 125–6:

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.

* 1890 July, , “My Islands”, in Longman's Magazine , Volume 16, Number 93, page 341:

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.

* 1894 , R. Bowdler Sharpe, A Hand-Book to the Birds of Great Britain , Volume I, W. H. Allen & Co., Limited, page 91:

As its name implies, this species [ 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.

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* {{quote-news, year=1827, author="Amateur", title=Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, and Bedfordshire Hunting, work=Sporting Magazine, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=yr4CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA64, page=64

, passage=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.}}

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* {{quote-book, year=1871, author=George Gill, title=Fourth Reader citation

, passage=Shortly after leaving Swindon the main line enters Wiltshire, and runs through an extremely woodland district to Chippenham

Anagrams

meadow

English

(wikipedia meadow)

Noun

(en noun)

A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay; an area of low-lying vegetation, especially near a river.

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, chapter=1, title= The Dust of Conflict , passage=

Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-01, author=Nancy Langston

, volume=101, issue=1, page=59, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= The Fraught History of a Watery World , passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}

Derived terms

* catch-meadow * meadow barley * meadow beauty * meadow bright * meadow buttercup * meadow clary * meadow clover * meadow cranesbill * meadow cress * meadow dermatitis * meadow fern * meadow fescue * meadow foxtail * meadow frog * meadow golden * meadow grass * meadow horsetail * meadow jumping mouse * meadow leek * meadow lily * meadow mouse * meadow muffin * meadow mushroom * meadow nematode * meadow ore * meadow oxeye * meadow pea * meadow pink * meadow pipit * meadow rue * meadow saffron * meadow salsify * meadow saxifrage * meadow spikemoss * meadow spittlebug * meadow starling * meadow thistle * meadow violet * meadow vole * meadowage * meadowed * meadower * meadowing * meadowish * meadowland * meadowlark * meadowless * meadowsweet * meadow-wink * meadowy * queen of the meadow * water meadow