noun
- areas of open uncultivated upland, typically covered with heather, coarse grasses, and moss
Usage: plural form of moorland
Examples
- The sheep grazed freely across the vast moorlands.
- Purple heather bloomed across the Scottish moorlands in late summer.
- Hikers enjoyed walking through the windswept moorlands.
- The moorlands stretched for miles under the gray sky.
- Wild ponies roamed the moorlands of Dartmoor.
- The moorlands provided habitat for many bird species.