hillocks
Gentle land swells
Hillocks is the plural of hillock, a small hill or mound.
The word appears most often in descriptions of rural or natural landscapes: The sheep grazed among the grassy hillocks.
Hillock carries a gentler, more pastoral feel than hill—something you might find in English countryside poetry.
Small rounded elevations
- hummocksLow rounded earth mounds
- moundsHeaps of earth
- drumlinsStreamlined glacial landforms
- torHigh rocky outcrop
dunes · ridges · rises · swells · barrows · tumuli · tell · cairns
Grave mounds or handcarts
- tumuliAncient burial mounds
- gravesBurial sites
- tombsChambers for the dead
- burialPlacing deceased underground
megaliths · neolithic · prehistoric · monuments · earthwork · excavation · archaeology · midden
Grassy field for grazing
- grazingFeeding on pasture
- pasturelandLand for grazing animals
- countrysideRural area beyond towns
- bucolicIdyllically rural
idyllic · flock · shepherd · verdant · farmland · paddock · homestead · rustic
knolls
Small rounded elevations
tor · dunes · ridges · rises · swells · barrows · tumuli · tell · cairns · moraines
barrows
Grave mounds or handcarts
burial · megaliths · neolithic · prehistoric · monuments · earthwork · excavation · archaeology · midden · passage
meadow
Grassy field for grazing
- grazingFeeding on pasture
- pasturelandLand for grazing animals
- countrysideRural area beyond towns
bucolic · idyllic · flock · shepherd · verdant · farmland · paddock · homestead · rustic · livestock
undulating
Moving in waves
contoured · terraced · gradual · bumpy · uneven · crested · rounded · softly · low-lying · scattered
soil
Ground matter for planting
sediment · erosion · bedrock · alluvium · strata · glacial · weathering · terrain · topography · deposition
- foothillsfoothills, piedmont, rolling hills, hills, slopes
- chip defectsdefects, dislocations, dislocation, voids, cracks
- forest trailstrail, trails, hiking trail, dirt trail, nature trail