upland

IPA: ˈʌpɫʌnd

noun

  • The area in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation.
  • (obsolete) The country, as against the town.
  • A city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.

adjective

  • Of, relating to, or situated in the uplands.
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Examples of "upland" in Sentences

  • Altitudinal change in upland endemism, species turnover, and diversity on Isla Santa Cruz, the Galápagos Islands.
  • At the same time most hardwoods in upland areas were poisoned or clearcut and replaced with pure pine plantations.
  • My personal choice of choke for upland is cylinder and my shots on occassional ducks or geese are at about the same range.
  • In the ACE Basin study area, 457,681.1 ha (185,296 ac) are classified as upland planted pine based on the 1997 National Wetlands Inventory.
  • It can also be grown without inundation, soil-moisture being held at near field capacity, in which case it is generally referred to as upland rice.
  • Do a bit of wingshooting ... same ethics apply, don't take the shot unless you can make the kill ... plenty of knuckleheads in upland and waterfowl areas where the definition of ethical is a bit more dynamic.
  • The treatment of this class of wet lands is so different from that applied to what we term upland, that it will be found more convenient to pass the subject by with this allusion, at present, and consider it more systematically under a separate head.

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