High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally dry; opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh, swamp, interval, and the like
A land zone sufficiently above or away from freshwater bodies, the water table, and streams to be largely dependent on precipitation for its water supplies
As used herein, any area that does not qualify as a wetland because the associated hydrologic regime is not sufficiently wet to elicit development of vegetation, soils, and/or hydrologic characteristics associated with wetlands Such areas occurring within floodplains are more appropriately termed nonwetlands