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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Full of hillocks.

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Examples

  • After the barbed wire and vast flat landscapes of Californian agribusiness, she reveled in the small, irregular, hillocky Irish fields, their rainwashed drystone walls and ancient hedges.

    American Pastoral Raban, Jonathan 2009

  • Headless, the body was that of a stranger, grotesque in the bumps that it was made up of: a large – no, hillocky – bump of a chest, an almost equally bulbous curve at the stomach, and then the falling away of thin legs beneath a cotton sari.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • Headless, the body was that of a stranger, grotesque in the bumps that it was made up of: a large – no, hillocky – bump of a chest, an almost equally bulbous curve at the stomach, and then the falling away of thin legs beneath a cotton sari.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • I clutched the handle as the rickshaw crested a hillocky part of the dirt road.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • Headless, the body was that of a stranger, grotesque in the bumps that it was made up of: a large – no, hillocky – bump of a chest, an almost equally bulbous curve at the stomach, and then the falling away of thin legs beneath a cotton sari.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • I clutched the handle as the rickshaw crested a hillocky part of the dirt road.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • I clutched the handle as the rickshaw crested a hillocky part of the dirt road.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • A long and hard tussle it was, I assure you, to fight against the indraught, and to drag my frame through the long hillocky gorge.

    Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Up this lane I went to the very top of the mountain wall, and then, to my surprise, found myself facing a great, hillocky, rock-encumbered plain, across the other side of which rose the mass of the peak itself, not as a single cone, but as a wall surmounted by several, three being evidently the highest among them.

    Travels in West Africa 2003

  • No violence accompanied this change; the matter thrown out was in vast quantities, and the liquid material oozing out from the abysses of the earth slowly spread in extensive plains or in hillocky masses.

    Journey to the Interior of the Earth 2003

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