hummock
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| —n | |
| 1. | a hillock; knoll |
| 2. | a ridge or mound of ice in an ice field |
| 3. | chiefly (Southern US) Also called: hammock a wooded area lying above the level of an adjacent marsh |
| [C16: of uncertain origin; compare | |
| 'hummocky | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
hummock
"knoll, hillock," 1555, originally nautical, "conical small hill on a seacoast," of obscure origin, though second element is dim. suffix -ock. In Florida, where the local form is hammock, it means a clump of hardwood trees on a knoll in a swamp or on a key.
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Example sentences
Habitats are level flats with shallow water tables and hummock-and-hollow microtopography.
Water is toted from a nearby artesian well about which a hummock of ice is growing.
The surface topography is hummock and hollow with fluctuating surface water levels in between the hummocks.
The bog surface is often uneven, with pronounced hummock and hollow microtopography.
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