noun
- an area of open uncultivated upland, typically covered with heather, coarse grasses, and moss
Usage: chiefly British
Examples
- The sheep grazed freely across the vast moorland.
- Purple heather bloomed across the Scottish moorland in late summer.
- Hikers enjoyed walking through the windswept moorland.
- The moorland stretched for miles without a single tree in sight.
- Wild ponies roamed the moorland near the village.
- Fog often rolls across the moorland in the early morning.