Meanings
nouncanyonland (countable and uncountable, plural canyonlands)
plural canyonlands
- countableuncountableA land full of canyons.
But I soon realized that whoever described the city as a concrete canyonland had his topography all wrong.
2009 March 8, Christopher Solomon, “Mountain Man”, in New York Times1 more example
The Kotsoteka Comanche lived mostly along the Canadian River, where the Llano ended and the dry plains turned into grassy canyonlands.
2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 94
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