canyonland

English

Etymology

From canyon +‎ land.

Noun

canyonland (countable and uncountable, plural canyonlands)

1. A land full of canyons.
   • 2009 March 8, Christopher Solomon, “Mountain Man”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     But I soon realized that whoever described the city as a concrete canyonland had his topography all wrong.

   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 94:

     The Kotsoteka Comanche lived mostly along the Canadian River, where the Llano ended and the dry plains turned into grassy canyonlands.