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
- Oak that grows in upland ground,
- The refuge is a of upland fields.
- The lakes are upland and acid in nature.
- The interior upland and the lowland tract.
- Early literature refers to it as an upland.
- Much of the upland areas of the town are grouse moors.
- The upland acreage of the island is approximately 3,000 acres.
- The district is located in the alpine upland on the Austrian border.
- The upland lakes support a species poor but notable upland insect fauna.
- In the north the glaciated peaks drop to tundra and boreal forested uplands.