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woodland

land covered with wood or trees; forest; land on which trees are suffered to grow, either for fuel or timber. Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again. (pope) Woodlands and cultivated fields are harmoniously blended. (Bancroft)

Of or pertaining to woods or woodland; living in the forest; sylvan. She had a rustic, woodland air. (Wordsworth) Like summer breeze by woodland stream. (Keble) Woodland caribou.

(Science: zoology) See Caribou.