dry land

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

dry land
    n 1: the solid part of the earth's surface; "the plane turned
         away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth
         shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the
         ground" [syn: {land}, {dry land}, {earth}, {ground}, {solid
         ground}, {terra firma}]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

35 Moby Thesaurus words for "dry land":
      acres, alluvion, alluvium, arable land, clay, clod, crust, dirt,
      dust, earth, freehold, glebe, grassland, ground, land,
      landholdings, lithosphere, marginal land, marl, mold, real estate,
      real property, region, regolith, sod, soil, subaerial deposit,
      subsoil, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, the country,
      topsoil, woodland

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