Meaning of badlands

bad•lands

Pronunciation: (bad'landz"), [key]

— n. (used with a pl. v.)

a barren area in which soft rock strata are eroded into varied, fantastic forms.

Bad' Lands"

Pronunciation: [key]

a barren, severely eroded region in SW South Dakota and NW Nebraska.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

See also:

badlands (Thesaurus)

badinage Badlands National Park

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