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Hummocky

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hum·mock  (hmk)
n.
1. A low mound or ridge of earth; a knoll.
2. also ham·mock (hmk) A tract of forested land that rises above an adjacent marsh in the southern United States.
3. A ridge or hill of ice in an ice field.

[Origin unknown.]

hummock·y adj.


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They vary from irregular, hummocky dune ridges close to the present shoreline to regular and continuous ridges.
Kames, again, demanded full treatment; four types were classified: i) accumulations associated with glacier margins, some possibly morainic, mainly in highlands; ii) terraces around lake margins, some hummocky (kettled?
These bogs often look bleak, but they are rich in plantlife: mosses, hummocky grasses, sedges, heathers and even insect-eating sundews, bladderworts and butterworts.
 
 
 
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