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Definition of Hummocky
1. a. Abounding in hummocks.
Definition of Hummocky
1. Adjective. Having hummocks. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hummocky
1. abounding in hummocks [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hummocky
Literary usage of Hummocky
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Arctic Researches, and Life Among the Esquimaux: Being the Narrative of an by Charles Francis Hall (1865)
"Magnificent Iceberg.— Dine on raw Seal.—New Land.—Remarkable Gap.—Cape Daly.—hummocky
Ice.—Ancient Piles of Stones.—Discover a new Channel. ..."
2. A Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies by James Backhouse (1843)
"hummocky Hills—Profanity.—Campbell Town and Ross.—Salt Pan Plains.—Oatlands.—Jericho.— The
Jordan.— Cross Marsh.—Green Ponds.—Constitution Hill.—Bagdad. ..."
3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1909)
"Morainal hummocky topography occurs toward the lower end of the valley. South Boulder
Creek, which is a rushing stream a few miles west of Tolland, ..."
4. Life with the Esquimaux: The Narrative of Captain Charles Francis Hall of by Charles Francis Hall (1864)
"... Channel — Jones's Tower — A Butterfly—Cape Daly—hummocky Ice— Ancient Piles
of Stones—Discover a new Channel—Dr. Kane's Channel— Immense number of Seals ..."
5. Permafrost: Second International Conference, July 13-28, 1973 : USSR by Frederick J. Sanger, Peter J. Hyde (1978)
"... IV—region of ancient lacustrine terraces characterized by a hummocky-sinkhole
type of microrelief combined with block and hummocky forms. ..."
6. The Great Ice Age and Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man by James Geikie (1894)
"It was thus, he thinks, that the far- extended hummocky moraines of the Baltic Eidge
... The only reasonable conclusion is that all the hummocky moraines ..."
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