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bad lands
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun bad lands has 1 sense
- bad lands(n = noun.location) badlands - an eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska; Array is a kind of geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region, badlands
is a part of cornhusker state, ne, nebraska, coyote state, mount rushmore state, sd, south dakota
CIDE DICTIONARY
bad lands,
Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by cañons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands). [1913 Webster]
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