knolls
Small rounded hills
Knolls are small, rounded hills or mounds.
The word appears in pastoral and literary descriptions of gentle, rolling landscapes: We picnicked on a grassy knoll overlooking the valley.
The phrase grassy knoll became permanently associated with the Kennedy assassination, referring to an area in Dallas where some believe a second gunman was positioned.
Heaped earth formation
- riseMove to higher position
- hummockLow earthen mound
- slopeAngled terrain or steepness
- elevationHeight above reference point
ridge · summit · tor · drumlin · knob · butte · bluff · undulation
Load carrier or tumulus
- tumulusAncient burial mound
- cairnMemorial stone pile
- earthworkConstructed soil structure
- motteFortification's central mound
tell · chambered · mound · ancient · ceremonial · ancestral · archaeological · prehistoric
mound
Heaped earth formation
elevation · ridge · summit · tor · drumlin · knob · butte · bluff · undulation · swell
barrow
Load carrier or tumulus
motte · tell · chambered · mound · ancient · ceremonial · ancestral · archaeological · prehistoric · funerary
meadow
Grassy field for grazing
moorland · dale · glade · grove · countryside · pasture · vale · hollow · glen · clearing
grazing
Feeding on pasture
idyllic · rural · tranquil · pastureland · sheep · farmland · rustic · serene · picturesque · pastoral
- landformsmountain, cliff, valley, volcano, mountain ridge
- landscapesmountain, valley, hills, landscape, scenery
- prominencesprotuberance, protrusion, bulge, bump, swelling
- foothillsfoothills, piedmont, rolling hills, hills, slopes
- mountainsmountain, peaks, peak, summit, summits
- forest trailstrail, trails, hiking trail, dirt trail, nature trail
- grassy knollSmall hill with lawn