noun. Land or an area of land of high elevation, especially when level.

noun. Land in the interior of a country.

adjective. Of, relating to, or located in an upland.

noun. The region in the interior; inland districts; country as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns or populous districts.

noun. The higher grounds of a district; ground elevated above meadows and valleys; slopes of hills, etc.

noun. plural A grade of cotton. See cotton.

Of or pertaining to the inland districts, or the country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns.

Hence Rustic; countrified; rude; savage; uncivilized. Compare inland, 4.

Of or pertaining to uplands, or higher grounds: as, upland pasturage; also, frequenting uplands: as, the upland plover.

adjective. Of or pertaining to uplands; being on upland; high in situation.

adjective. Pertaining to the country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns; rustic; rude; unpolished.

adjective. See Moccasin.

adjective. a large American sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) much valued as a game bird. Unlike most sandpipers, it frequents fields and uplands. Called also Bartramian sandpiper, Bartram's tattler, field plover, grass plover, highland plover, hillbird, humility, prairie plover, prairie pigeon, prairie snipe, papabote, quaily, and uplander.

adjective. undefined

adjective. a North American shrub of the genus Rhus (Rhus glabra), used in tanning and dyeing.

noun. High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally dry; -- opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh, swamp, interval, and the like.

noun. The country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns.

noun. The area in the interior of a country with a generally higher elevation; often hilly, but not generally mountainous (compare highlands).

adjective. Of, relating to, or situated in the uplands.

noun. elevated (e.g., mountainous) land

adjective. used of high or hilly country

"The treatment of this class of wet lands is so different from that applied to what we term upland, that it will be found more convenient to pass the subject by with this allusion, at present, and consider it more systematically under a separate head."

interval  lowland  marsh  meadow  swamp  

inland  sandpiper  upland boneset  upland cotton  upland flake  

Alpine  alpestrine  mountainous  subalpine  upland plover  

uplander  uplandish  

desolate  fertile  grassy  hillside  inland  

Arcadian  agrarian  agrestic  agricultural  agricultural region