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Recent Examples of bottomland
Often, deer that bed in flatter creek or river bottomlands bed close to the water.
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Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 19 Dec. 2024
There is quite a large area of bottomland forest and marshlands year round.
—Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Dec. 2024
Tennessee residents will be able to choose Red Milkweed - a native perennial found in swamps, river bottomlands and wet meadows - and Common Milkweed - another native perennial found in fields, open woods and roadsides, though less than 100,000 seed packets remain for each variety.
—Katie Nixon, The Tennessean, 13 Oct. 2024
Crews have been scattering millions of seeds of native plants to restore vegetation on 2,200 acres of reservoir bottomlands that were underwater for generations.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
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Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 19 Dec. 2024
There is quite a large area of bottomland forest and marshlands year round.
—Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Dec. 2024
Tennessee residents will be able to choose Red Milkweed - a native perennial found in swamps, river bottomlands and wet meadows - and Common Milkweed - another native perennial found in fields, open woods and roadsides, though less than 100,000 seed packets remain for each variety.
—Katie Nixon, The Tennessean, 13 Oct. 2024
Crews have been scattering millions of seeds of native plants to restore vegetation on 2,200 acres of reservoir bottomlands that were underwater for generations.
—Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bottomland
Noun
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This feature provides a dispersal pathway for organisms from the Amazon region to move westward to the Pacific lowlands and vice versa, thereby changing their natural biogeographic ranges.—
GrrlScientist,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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In the 1600s, a Swiss medical student named Johannes Hofer studied mercenaries in the Italian and French lowlands who longed desperately for their mountain homelands.—
Chelsea Reid,
The Conversation,
17 June 2025
Noun
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There’s more than just spectacle to this event: The park can sustain only about 1,000 of the animals without grasslands becoming dangerously depleted, so the excess population will be auctioned off in the roundup’s wake.—
Mark Ellwood,
AFAR Media,
30 June 2025
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The road passes vast farm fields, undulating grasslands dotted with towering wind turbines and sprawling cattle ranches before entering Amarillo, the Panhandle’s largest city.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
19 June 2025
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Earthworms are essential for organic matter decomposition and soil health in gardens, forests, prairies and farmland.—
Brandi D. Addison,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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The tribe plans projects to create healthier stream habitats for fish, and to restore meadows and prairies.—
Ian James,
Los Angeles Times,
14 June 2025
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Less well known is their critical role in helping dead things disappear—piles of leaves and rotting stumps, the rat in the street, the elephant on the savanna, the contents of your compost bin.—
Madeline Bodin,
Smithsonian Magazine,
27 June 2025
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Black mambas are often seen cruising the savanna with their head and neck held high, using their keen eyesight to scan for danger or track prey – typically small mammals such as hyraxes, bush babies, and rodents.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
22 June 2025
Noun
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Our current favorite pairs include a few riffs on those flats from The Row—but thanks to the recent creative renaissance around jellies, there are so many more options to discover.—
Jake Henry Smith,
Glamour,
15 July 2025
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The actress accessorized with a wicker handbag and white pointed-toe flats.—
Catherine Santino,
People.com,
14 July 2025
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The largest tract of public land in the United States is a wild expanse of tundra and wetlands stretching across nearly 23 million acres of northern Alaska.—
Mariah Meek,
The Conversation,
30 June 2025
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The next leg is along the Dempster Highway, an epic journey through boreal forest and tundra that crosses the Arctic Circle.—
Joe Yogerst,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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The property spans 140 acres, including verdant meadows and woodlands, in the Hudson Valley.—
Stacey Leasca,
Travel + Leisure,
8 July 2025
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On the prairie—from the French word for meadow—horses thrived.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
6 July 2025
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“Bottomland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bottomland. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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