fireland
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See also: Fireland
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]fireland (countable and uncountable, plural firelands)
- Land that is characterized by, or has been degraded by, fires.
- 2007 August 28, Ndegwa Ndiang'ui, Climate and Land Degradation, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 240:
- The use of annual burning to manage pasture for cattle grazing in these areas further perpetuates a fireland degraded environment (Styger et al. 2007).