Difference between Moorland and Moor

What is the difference between Moorland and Moor?

Moorland as a noun is open land that has an acidic peaty soil and is mostly covered with heather or bracken while Moor as a noun is an extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.

Moorland

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Open land that has an acidic peaty soil and is mostly covered with heather or bracken

Moor

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath.A game preserve consisting of moorland.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To cast anchor or become fastened.To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf.To secure or fix firmly.

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