heathlike

The land under which these beds lie is generally very well drained, creating heathlike conditions.

But the moment they had grounded, the cloud vanished, leaving them staring out at a broad, deserted sweep of heathlike countryside.

As Buschbacher et al.(1987) have pointed out, it is doubtful if many of the pastures that were created in the eastern Amazon basin in the 1970s (section 7.3.1), and have since been abandoned, w ill ever return to forest: they may be permanently covered in heathlike vegetation.