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Meanings of upland in anglès

espanyol
montañoso

Used of high or hilly country.

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      Examples for "highland"
      Examples for "highland"
      1
      The result of the sweet potato's arrival was a highland population explosion.
      Guns, germs, and steel: the fates of human societies
      2
      However, little information is available about the adaptive evolution of highland fishes.
      Pubmed
      3
      Human refuges now confined entirely to highland areas and the polar regions.
      The Guardian
      4
      We have considered the Laurentian highland and the glaciation which centered there.
      The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America
      5
      Some blame Aymara and other highland settlers, soy farmers and cattle ranchers.
      Reuters
      Usage of upland in anglès
      1
      The upland rice requires much more care and labor in its cultivation.
      The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes
      2
      It was more hilly and upland; and the vegetation had altogether changed.
      The Boy Hunters
      3
      A mountain rescue team has warned of treacherous conditions on upland walks.
      The Irish Times
      4
      Some fruits thrive best in a stiff clay, others in sandy upland.
      Success with Small Fruits
      5
      The upland plain, stretching inward from the coast, wears a different character.
      Views A-foot; Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff
      6
      Cruachmore, the nearest upland farm, could scarcely be seen from the stronghold.
      The Daughters of Danaus
      7
      Then, higher, came the big cattle-dotted upland pastures, and the rocky summit.
      The Human Drift
      8
      Each tuft of upland grass is musked like a bouquet with perfume.
      Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile
      9
      There are two distinct kinds of rice, upland rice and lowland rice.
      Agriculture for Beginners / Revised Edition
      10
      She listened until she heard his horse's hoofs upon the rocky upland.
      The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Volume 5
      11
      It likes moisture, bogs, wet places in meadows, often in upland woods.
      The Clan of the Cave Bear
      12
      That's our upland pasture, that's where I intend to put your Damie.
      The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
      13
      The irrational way in which upland heather moors are protected is one example.
      The Guardian
      14
      They jogged onward, heading north and upland; Orman heard no sounds of pursuit.
      Assail
      15
      They come into a stretch of space, an upland of good thick earth.
      Iron Council
      16
      The yellowing grain on the upland waved gently in the breeze.
      Uncle Robert's Geography (Uncle Robert's Visit, V.3)
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      Translations for upland
      espanyol
      montañoso
      Upland through the time
      Upland across language varieties
      United Kingdom
      Common
      United States of America
      Less common