wildland

Etymology

From wild + land.

wildland means land that is unfit for, or has not been modified by, cultivation or other human activity; a natural area. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

noun

Land that is unfit for, or has not been modified by, cultivation or other human activity; a natural area.“1837, Lord Glenelg, question submitted to the law officers of the Crown in England, quoted in Justice Gwynne, opinion in Mercer v. Attorney General for Ontario, 1881, in Reports of the Supreme Court of Canada, Volume V, page 686, Whether it is in point of law competent for his Majesty, with the advice of and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of New Brunswick, to render the tracts of ”