noun
- plural of hummock; small rounded hills or mounds, especially of earth or ice
Usage: common in geography and geology; often used to describe Arctic or glacial terrain
Examples
- The Arctic landscape was dotted with ice hommocks.
- Hikers had to navigate through dense hommocks in the tundra.
- The frozen ground formed numerous hommocks after the winter thaw.
- Geologists studied the hommocks to understand glacial movement.
- The field was covered with grassy hommocks of varying heights.