Meaning & use

Moonscape

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A landscape resembling the barren, cratered surface of the moon.

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After the eruption, the volcanic field looked like a lunar moonscape.

Photographers were drawn to the desert's eerie moonscape at dawn.

A note on using this word

The term is often used figuratively to describe any bleak, desolate, or heavily cratered terrain on Earth.

Words with a similar meaning

lunar landscape

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