unprospected en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + prospected.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Not having been prospected.
In February, for example, the Interior Department awarded Royal Dutch Shell the right to drill for oil in the Chukchi Sea off the northwestern shore of Alaska, a heretofore unprospected patch of marine habitat and prime walrus fishing ground.
2008 May 20, Natalie Angier, “Ice Dwellers Are Finding Less Ice to Dwell On”, in New York Times: