Meaning of GLADE
| Pronunciation: | | gleyd
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | [n] a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area |
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| | Synonyms: | | clearing |
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| | See Also: | | parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Glade\, n. [Prob. of Scand. origin, and akin to glad, a.;
cf. also W. golead, goleuad, a lighting, illumination, fr.
goleu light, clear, bright, goleu fwlch glade, lit., a light
or clear defile.]
1. An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared
space in a forest.
There interspersed in lawns and opening glades.
--Pope.
2. An everglade. [Local, U. S.]
3. An opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left
unfrozen; also, smooth ice. [Local, U. S.]
{Bottom glade}. See under {Bottom}.
{Glade net}, in England, a net used for catching woodcock and
other birds in forest glades.
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Open space surrounded by woods or a forest; a marshy and usually low-lying area; a periodically inundated grassy marsh often running between adjacent slopes; a marshy area bounding or forming the headwaters of a stream. |
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| | Related Terms: | | air space, back country, baygall, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, clear space, clearance, clearing, desert, distant prospect, empty view, everglade, fen, fenland, hog wallow, holm, Lebensraum, living space, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, mere, mire, moor, moorland, morass, moss, mud, mud flat, open country, open space, outback, peat bog, plain, prairie, quagmire, quicksand, salt marsh, slob land, slough, sough, steppe, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, taiga, terrain, territory, wallow, wash, wide-open spaces, wilderness |
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