hummock
noun
Also an elevated tract of land rising above the general level of a marshy region.
hummocky
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a word derived from
hummock.
Example Sentences
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“Look at that caterpillar,” Andrew J. Brand said one afternoon as we passed a hummocky old bottlebrush buckeye shrub in my garden.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2022
White tendrils, sometimes columns, rose in all directions from charred soil and wisped out from an 800-foot-tall hummocky, granitic hillside to my left.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2018
The hummocky hills, the depressions of water everywhere and the rocks are remains of the county’s fairly recent, in geological time anyway, glacial history.
From Washington Times ● May 13, 2017
These beds are called hummocky cross-stratification and have a 3D architecture of hills and valleys, with inclined and declined layering that matches the dune shapes.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
We started down 101 to Paso Robles, crossed over the hummocky Diablo Range to the central valley, skirted Bakersfield, and climbed through Tehachapi Pass into the desert.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
