thinly wooded

He came to the thinly wooded crest and worked his way forward through scanty cover, keeping low.

The terrain behind the planned landing site was rough, thinly wooded and covered with scrub.

They were across the bridge and spreading pell-mell down through a slope of thinly wooded land.

They were in a thinly wooded section, atop a hill overlooking the ducal estate to the south.

The less elevated areas of the plateaus are either thinly wooded or open campo.

This made them invincible in combat on the northern grasslands and in the thinly wooded forests.

The true habitat of this bird is thinly wooded forests, but other similar New Zealand species live near rocky outcrops.

With barely a pause in mid-flight Toff's quick eyes scanned the thinly wooded area.

The primary habitat is thinly wooded mountain forests from sea-level up to an elevation of 2,000 metres .

The land stretched ahead in a series of folds, gulleys and hollows, thinly wooded and undulating.

P. coriacea shows a preference for light soils in open habitats such as downland and thinly wooded heathland.

Savanna is primarily a thinly wooded habitat that tends to favor the white-footed mouse over the prairie deer mouse.

Many take advantage of the ridgetop topography and thinly wooded summits to offer panoramic viewpoints over the river and region.

Prior to the arrival of European settlers, the Grange area consisted of areas of open grassland and thinly wooded plains.

He wrote that he had passed that day 'over a very beautiful country, thinly wooded and apparently safe from the highest floods...'

But the path was clear, and by the time their shadows had grown long upon the dust of the trail they reached the thinly wooded area rimming the bay.

AFTER I had driven all day over the brutal washboard roads that cut through Benin's thinly wooded savanna, my back was so sore that walking was painful.

As they broke from the timber into a thinly wooded, rough field of clumped grass, Richard saw above the leafy limbs a leaden sky threatening to unleash torrents of rain.

It was a rocky, scrubby place, very thinly wooded at one end, with little substantial ground cover, certainly not enough to allow the remotest chance of lying low and passing through a line of beaters.

I left the car and ran across some thinly wooded grassland till I came to 'a thick belt of pines that obviously served as some kind of windbreak for a habitation.

Racing up the thinly wooded slope, The Shadow reached Brett's house from the back, or rather its most remote side, since there was no telling whether Future Haven had a front or back.

By dusk they had reached a thinly wooded ridge of land and Banouin dismounted, leading the ponies into a shallow cave, where he built a fire and prepared a meal of rich stew.

Two days ride to the south-west of the city Attalus raised his arm to halt the company, then gazed around at the forbidding landscape -rockstrewn and jagged, thinly wooded and laced with streams.

Prior to white settlement the area was populated by the Gringai tribe, who called the region "Tunkok" or "Tungog", or "the place of thinly wooded hills" in the Awabakal dialect.