: cleared of forests : characterized by deforestation
deforested areas
All the rain lands on arid, deforested and stony ground. Nicholas Riccardi
It is now an eroded and deforested land of 12 million; its rivers are clogged with sediment and every year it is subjected to destructive floods. Paul Theroux
Today, it is one of the most deforested parts of the Brazilian Amazon. Wayne Ellwood