hillock
noun
a small hill.
hillocky
-
a word derived from
hillock.
Example Sentences
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The yaks of the Kirghizes are wonderfully sure-footed, and one can ride on them over slippery hillocky ice where a man could not possibly walk.
From From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People by Sven Anders Hedin
Another type of hillocky deposit is exemplified by the “drums” or “drumlins.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various
The spot was like a little ravined, hillocky wilderness of sterile rocks, draped with rude vegetation, clinging creepers that twined and twisted through every crevice like green serpents.
From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Émile Zola
The south-east end of the island was hillocky, with volcanic subsoil.
From The Ragged Edge by Harold MacGrath
Its body -dusky, enormous, hillocky - lies spread upon the sea like an islet.
From A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne
