mountainous

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Geography: hills & mountains
acclivity
alpine tundra
clifftop
craggy
esker
highlands
hillock
Marilyn
mesa
mid-ocean ridge
motte
Mount Kilimanjaro
pike
scarp
slope
spur
steep
the Adirondack Mountains
the Alaska Range
the Alps

Examples of hilly

hilly
The hilly landscape resulted in habitat fragmentation by the creation of numerous islands and peninsulas of various shapes, sizes and degrees of isolation.
Trees in primary forests on hilly land include both large- and small-winged diaspores.
The hilly terrain was also widely terraced to prevent erosion and maintain soil productivity.
On hilly sites that are never inundated there are lowland dipterocarp forests.
Below a certain minimum length, almost any piece is 'hilly' or chunkable.
The proportion of the farm on hilly terrain has a negative impact, but it is not significant.
Terrain is hilly, undulating with wide valleys and plateaux.
Even in hilly areas, the whole harvest is transferred to the threshing site.
It was relatively straight but traversed hilly terrain and had to cross many gorges.
A stratified sampling of rural communities by size of their farms, distance from an urban centre and local geography (mountainous, hilly, plain) was used.
We include a variable on the percentage of farm area with hilly topography, without making any prediction as to how it will affect results.
If the terrain was hilly, two samples were taken in hill tops, and one in a valley bottom.
Our study sites are mostly hilly and the deterioration of forest environments has resulted in soil erosion and other negative environmental externalities.
The tribal populations are isolated, living in remote forests and hilly areas far from urban centres.
Why not simply write music rich in detail, but that is also 'hilly' or relatively easily chunkable?
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