DictionaryRoot: mor
Old English
mor
morass, swamp
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noun
moorland
MOOR-lund/ˈmʊrlənd/
Open, uncultivated upland covered with low vegetation.
Etymology
The compound joins a word for swampy ground with one for land or territory. As moor came to describe open, untilled ground often covered in heath, moorland named a tract of that terrain.