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Definition of Bad lands
1. Noun. An eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska.
Generic synonyms: Geographic Area, Geographic Region, Geographical Area, Geographical Region, Badlands
Group relationships: Cornhusker State, Ne, Nebraska, Coyote State, Mount Rushmore State, Sd, South Dakota
Medical Definition of Bad lands
1. Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by canons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands). Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bad Lands
Literary usage of Bad lands
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biennial report by North Dakota Geological Survey (1904)
"bad lands Distribution.—The bad lands of the Little Missouri country are in every
case distributed in close relation to the river or its tributaries, ..."
2. Walks and Talks in the Geological Field by Alexander Winchell (1898)
"The Bad THE "bad lands" in the dialect of the trapper and Indian, ... The Bad
Lands of the United States are underlaid by Tertiary strata which have been ..."
3. The Story of the Prairies: Or, The Landscape Geology of North Dakota by Daniel Everett Willard (1907)
"THE bad lands. bad lands to Travel Through.—Xo part of North Dakota is perhaps
more widely known or less understood than that part of the State styled the ..."
4. Memorial Volume of the Transcontinental Excursion of 1912 of the American by American geological society of New York, American Geographical Society (New York) (1915)
"Regioni che si possono considerare come "bad lands" sono in Italia più diffuse di
... In ambedue queste regioni come nel resto d'Italia, i "bad lands" sono ..."
5. Elementary Physical Geography by William Morris Davis (1902)
"bad lands. — Arid regions of weak, fine-textured strata are often minutely ...
Sharply carved forms of this kind are known as bad lands because of the ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"... visited the bad lands of the State, and especially the ... the Hat Creek Bad
Lands and the fossil Corkscrew beds in the Loup Fork Tertiary of Sioux ..."
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