canyonland
English
Etymology
From canyon + land.
Noun
canyonland (countable and uncountable, plural canyonlands)
- A land full of canyons.
- 2009 March 8, Christopher Solomon, “Mountain Man”, in New York Times:
- 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 2014, p. 94:
- The Kotsoteka Comanche lived mostly along the Canadian River, where the Llano ended and the dry plains turned into grassy canyonlands.
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