The phrase "rugged plains" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a type of terrain that is characterized by rough or uneven land, often with a lack of vegetation. Example: After days of trekking through rugged plains, the explorers finally reached the base of the mountain.
For 1,500 years, the two statues stood in their sandstone niches and stared across the rugged plain toward the snowy peaks of the Baba mountains.
After hearing Guthrie on the radio in 1950, he was so smitten with his rugged, plain-spoken style and passionate identification with the common man that he visited him and ended up living in the Guthrie household.
EAGLE on the breast, or better yet, the rugged, plain ones.
From the rugged empty plains of Mongolia to Tokyo's neon-streaked cities, to the heavenly palm-fringed beaches of Bali, Phuket and Langkawi, Asia is one of the most diverse continents on the planet.
The western has as its setting the immense plains, rugged tablelands, and mountain ranges of the portion of the United States lying west of the Mississippi River, in particular the Great Plains and the Southwest.
Pluto, still smarting from its demotion to dwarf planet, nonetheless revealed itself to be a complex world, with a polar ice cap, rugged mountains, smooth plains, and reddish patches that recalled the surface of Mars.
Established March 25 , 2013 The rugged, wide-open plains of the 242,500-acre Rio Grande del Norte National Monument average an elevation of 7,000 feet.
To border the promenade below Mr. Van Valkenburgh has planted a crush of native flood plain trees and rugged plants, expecting that they will not all survive the periodic flooding and winter ice floes, and interspersed among them boulders collected from the area that give the plantings a Japanese quality and also serve as convenient seating.
A one-time Jacobean dining hall, it is plain, rugged, a genuine design classic.
Among Andalucia's fertile plains and rugged, forested highlands you'll find continental Spain's highest mountain, Mulhacén (3,478m), and Europe's only desert, near Almería.
