adjective
- characterized by or covered with hummocks; having an uneven, bumpy surface with small hills or ridges
Usage: commonly used in geography and geology to describe terrain
Examples
- The hummocky landscape of the tundra made hiking difficult.
- Glacial deposits created a hummocky terrain across the valley.
- The field was too hummocky for the farmer to plow efficiently.
- We walked across the hummocky ground, stepping over small mounds of earth.
- The coastal dunes formed a hummocky pattern along the shore.
- Permafrost thaw produced a distinctly hummocky surface in the Arctic region.