glade

glade
   (colloquial: Ozark uplands, USA)
    a) A largely treeless, open, grassy area (e.g., oak savanna) on high, broad interfluves and hillsides, commonly with shallow soils.
   Compare: park.
   SW.
    b) (not preferred) refer to park: An ecological term for a grassy, open depression or small valley as in a high meadow; sometimes marshy and forming the headwaters of a stream, or a low, grassy marsh that is periodically inundated.
   GG & SW

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