| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Badlands |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Bad·lands |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b d lndz |
| VARIANT FORMS: | also Bad Lands |
| A heavily eroded arid region of southwest South Dakota and northwest Nebraska. The Badlands National Monument in South Dakota was established in 1939 to protect the area's colorful rock formations and prehistoric fossils.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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