A region covered with bushes and low trees; particularly, the sparsely populated wild areas of Australia.
From 'bush' (wild vegetation/remote area) + 'land' (English word for terrain). Primarily used in Australian English, emerging in the 19th century as settlers described the landscape.
Bushland became iconic Australian vocabulary precisely when settlers needed a word for terrain that wasn't forest, wasn't grassland, and wasn't civilized—language expands when cultures encounter new environments they must describe to others.
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