Definition of "parkland" [parkland]

• Land within or suitable for public parks: Alaska's vast federal parkland. (noun)
• Grassland with scattered clusters of trees or shrubs. (noun)

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• "The Guadalupe and Loreto forts are in parkland, about 2 km north-east of Puebla city center."
• "Environmentalists oppose the new stadium, which would be built in parkland across from Roland Garros."
• "The Fresh Kills landfill, on Staten Island, now landscaped as parkland, is one of the largest man-made objects in North America — in volume some twenty-five times the size of the Great Pyramid of Khufu."