Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See tumulose.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Full of small hills or mounds; hilly; tumulose.

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  • adjective Full of small hills or mounds; hilly; tumulose.

Etymologies

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Latin tumulosus, from tumulus a mound.

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Examples

  • Great masses of cloud hung beyond the edge of the world, and here and there towered foundationless in the sky -- huge tumulous heaps of white vapour with gray shadows.

    What's Mine's Mine — Complete George MacDonald 1864

  • Great masses of cloud hung beyond the edge of the world, and here and there towered foundationless in the sky -- huge tumulous heaps of white vapour with gray shadows.

    What's Mine's Mine — Volume 3 George MacDonald 1864

  • The next day proved cloudy; we, however, resumed our course which led over a rough, tumulous country, covered with snow and darkened by occasional clusters of pines.

    ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841

  • Following the course of this latter ridge from north to south, we find upon both sides a reach of very broken and highly tumulous landscape, some twenty or thirty miles broad.

    ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841

  • Our route from Beaver creek led over a tumulous country, interspersed with valleys of a rich soil, and prolific in rank vegetation.

    ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841

  • The country adjacent, with the exception of its being more tumulous, is much like the llanos peculiar to this region.

    ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841

  • The interval between Walnut and Cow creeks is generally sandy and somewhat tumulous, but is different in many respects from any other section previously noticed.

    ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841

  • Crossing the Platte opposite the Fort, we continued our course, west by north, over a broken and tumulous prairie, occasionally diversified by thick clusters of pines and furrowed by deep ravines, and abounding in diminutive valleys, whose tall, withered grass gave evidence of the rich soil producing it.

    ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841

  • Ungodly old Ard-rey, Cronwall beeswaxing the convulsion box. domm, who, entiringly as he continues highly-fictional, tumulous under his chthonic exterior but plain Mr Tumulty in muftilife,2 in his an-tisipiences as in his recognisances, is, (Dominic

    Finnegans Wake 2006

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