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hilllike en · ADJ

Etymology

From hill + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling a hill or hills.
   • They are raised hilllike areas rising above the surrounding flat marshlands. 1983, Rachel Swayze O'Connor, Allie Bayne Windham Webb, Mistress of Evergreen Plantation: Rachel O'Connor's legacy of letters, 1823-1845:
   • Patch reefs are hilllike reefs that often occur in sandy lagoon areas or on the upper reef slope of gently inclined fringing reefs. 1990, Les Holliday, Geoff Rodgers, Coral reefs: a global view:
   • […] it is visualized as a formation with ends coming down, or a hilllike formation, leveling out near the end of its length. 1983, Rik Pinxten, Ingrid Van Dooren, Frank Harvey, Anthropology of space:

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