landscraper
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landscraper¹
Where it comes from
From land + -scraper.
noun landscrapers
- A building with a very large horizontal footprint; a horizontal megastructure. But the super structure already has been panned by local author and architectural critic James Howard Kunstler, who has called the building a "landscraper" the size of an aircraft carrier, and compared it unfavorably to a "gigantic brick Yule log" and Darth Vader's mask.
landscraper²
Where it comes from
Compound of land + scraper.
noun landscrapers
- A piece of heavy equipment used to move earth. "We caught them using a lot of heavy equipment — big landscrapers were moving out tons of dirt," said Marlene Stephens, of Don't Waste Arizona, a coalition of Arizona environmental groups fighting the toxic waste complex.
- A gardener or gardener. "I loved flowers, too, and grew up in a garden, but it didn't make me single-minded or a landscraper. . . ."
Talk about this word "landscraper." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/landscraper. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. landscraper. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/landscraper "landscraper." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/landscraper.Cite this
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title = {landscraper},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/landscraper},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
