croplands

noun

plural of cropland
as in farmlands

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  1. farmlands
  2. farms
  3. ranches
  4. farmsteads
Noun
  • At their regular density levels in Australian farmlands, the researchers estimated that brown snakes alone might remove thousands of mice annually for every square kilometer of farmland.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2026
Definition of farmlands
Noun
  • Every year, Pigott and his son start thinking about the pumpkin in August, scouting farms in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Upstate New York.
    — Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The Kenya pipeline expansion is part of Dangote’s plan to own a distribution network that includes regional tank farms and other pipelines that will connect the group’s refineries to prospective markets across the continent.
    — Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of farms
Noun
  • State regulations addressing animal disposal primarily cover agricultural settings, such as farms and ranches.
    — Angela Rodriguez, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Together, the summer and winter ranches comprise the finest of mule-deer range.
    — Erwin A. Bauer, Outdoor Life, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of ranches
Noun
  • Some of the worst cases of the syndrome, for instance, have been on poor farmsteads in South Africa’s Eastern Cape.
    — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • Settlements and farmsteads spread across the state, and each year the timbermen marched deeper into the woods.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
Definition of farmsteads
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