Definition of "land-hungry" [land-hungry]

• Greedy for the acquisition of land or territory.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The region, with rich soil and warm climate, was a magnet for land-hungry American settlers, runaway slaves, British loyalists exiled after the Revolutionary War and French adventurers."
• "Crockett was born in 1786, Scots-Irish, a descendant of the impoverished, raucous, land-hungry, war-loving tribe that had swarmed into America in the 1700s in a horde far outnumbering the Puritans or Quakers or Cavaliers of Virginia—2½ times as many as all the others combined."
• "Renewable energy remains too expensive, too land-hungry, too unreliable and too small-scale to take up much slack, so cheap coal and newly abundant natural gas will do the job."