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Bad Lands

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Bad·lands also Bad Lands  (bdlndz)
A heavily eroded arid region of southwest South Dakota and northwest Nebraska. The Badlands National Monument in South Dakota was established in 1939 to protect the area's colorful rock formations and prehistoric fossils.
bad·lands  (bdlndz)
pl.n.
Barren land characterized by roughly eroded ridges, peaks, and mesas.
Bad Lands
pl n
(Placename) a deeply eroded barren region of SW South Dakota and NW Nebraska
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Noun1.Bad LandsBad Lands - an eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska
Badlands
Cornhusker State, Nebraska, NE - a midwestern state on the Great Plains
Coyote State, Mount Rushmore State, SD, South Dakota - a state in north central United States


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I had escaped from the curious depression that hangs over little towns, and my mind was full of pleasant things; trips I meant to take with the Cuzak boys, in the Bad Lands and up on the Stinking Water.
My Antonia by Cather, Willa View in context
I was with the Philadelphia Institute expedition in the Bad Lands under Professor Cope, hunting mastodon bones, and I overheard him say, his own self, that any plantigrade circumflex vertebrate bacterium that hadn't wings and was uncertain was a reptile.
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