Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Abounding in or full of hummocks.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Abounding in hummocks.
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- adjective Having
hummocks .
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Examples
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The ice in the offing was of the "hummocky" kind, and drifting rapidly about with the tides, leaving us a navigable channel varying in width from two miles to three or four hundred yards.
Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2 William Edward Parry 1822
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"hummocky," and heavier than any we had seen since making Igloolik; some of the hummocks, as we afterward found, measuring from eight to ten feet above the surface of the sea.
Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2 William Edward Parry 1822
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The firing direction points only to impassible tangles of mountain laurel and hummocky swamp behind my earth filled 55 gallon drums for backstop.
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On Wednesday, the space agency released new images of the hummocky surface as Dawn circled from an average altitude of 130 miles above the surface – the closest it'll get.
NASA Dawn Spacecraft Beams Back New Images Of Vesta Asteroid 2011
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There was a beech table half eaten into by a geometrically precise hummocky valley and a pair of side tables made from cardboard, with what looked like the ghosts of elegant 18th-century cabriolet-legged wooden tables hovering inside them.
Combining Craft with Digital Emma Crichton-Miller 2010
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On the steeper slopes of hummocky ground there were banks of blaeberry and cowberry with a very deep layer of mosses.
Country diary: Glen Strathfarrar Ray Collier 2010
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The firing direction points only to impassible tangles of mountain laurel and hummocky swamp behind my earth filled 55 gallon drums for backstop.
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Curled-up dogs lie in large circles on the hummocky shore ice, their rusty chains leading from a spike frozen into the ice like spokes on an old, buckled wheel.
World's race for economic growth threatens Greenland's pure white wilderness 2011
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The building materials? the rosy bricks, the russet hanging tiles, the massive oak beams, even the iron for hinges and latches? would have come from within a five-mile radius, which is why the house feels like a natural outcrop of the hummocky Sussex Wealden landscape in which it sits.
Hancox: All under one roof Charlotte Moore 2010
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For the first few miles it was quite wide, and as I kept to the eastern side there was a great expanse of hummocky snow to my right.
The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010
palooka commented on the word hummocky
Uneven, lumpy terrain.
March 18, 2007
frogapplause commented on the word hummocky
I like the sound of this word.
March 12, 2013