upland
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- n elevated (e.g., mountainous) land
- a used of high or hilly country
- Others on his growing worry list include the bobolink, the upland sandpiper and the loggerhead shrike.
- In those mountains you'll find fertile upland valleys once farmed by Vikings, spectacular fjords circled by sea eagles, and winding roads that lead to fishing hamlets where orcas .
- But on the upland prairie grew a golden harvest whose rich yield ( 20 to 40 bushels an acre) would more than make up for lowland losses.