brule

/bruːl/
noun
  1. A tract of land that has been burned over, especially in a forest or prairie.
    • The ecologist studied how plants regrow in a brule over several decades.
    • Camping was not allowed in the brule because the soil was still unstable.
    • After the wildfire, the hikers walked through a vast brule where only blackened stumps remained.
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