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The conical area of origin of the axon from the nerve cell body.

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A sheet of rain came drifting across the lake toward the hillock on which the house stood.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn|Margaret Penrose
Three miles to the south of the hillock on Cape Villaret, are two lumps, which at a distance appeared like rocks.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]|Phillip Parker King
They saw the Spaniard climb a hillock; just at the curve he gave one sweep of the hand—was gone.
God Wills It!|William Stearns Davis
It is a town of above three hundred houses, built round the base of a sandy hillock, the church being on the hill.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808|Lt-Col. Pinkney

"There lies a ravine with a sweet spring, beyond the next hillock," said Musa, who never forgot a road once travelled.
God Wills It!|William Stearns Davis