bareland

English

Etymology

From bare +‎ land.

Noun

bareland (countable and uncountable, plural barelands)

1. (uncommon outside the sciences; also found capitalized as the name of various specific places) Uncultivated land without trees.
   • 2005, Herman H. Shugart, Rik Leemans, Gordon B. Bonan, A Systems Analysis of the Global Boreal Forest, page 215:

     […] open woodlands and barelands.

   • 2006, John Francis Kinsella, Borneo Pulp, page 279:

     The 'barelands' as the name suggests, was uninhabited, no cultivation, no trees, and consequently nobody […]

   • 2019, Tesfay Gebretsadkan Gebremicael, Understanding the Impact of Human Interventions on the Hydrology of Nile Basin Headwaters, the Case of Upper Tekeze Catchments, page 1984:

     […] woodland and bareland were the dominant LULC types at the beginning of the study period.

Adjective

bareland (not comparable)

1. Of a croft: not including a house.
   • 1969, The Journal of the Law Society of Scotland, volume 14, page 91:

     In some crofting areas it is practice to pay a considerable sum for the assignation of a bareland croft, or a croft with an unfit house, in order to qualify for grant.