badlands
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noun
- An arid terrain characterized by severe erosion of sedimentary rocks.
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- Badlands National Park, a national park in South Dakota.
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Etymology
From earlier Bad Lands, calque of Canadian French mauvaises terres à traverser (“bad lands to cross”), itself a calque of Lakota Makȟóšiča (from makȟá (“land”) + o- (attributive prefix) + šíča (“bad”)).
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