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foothill

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foot·hill  (fthl)
n.
A hill near the base of a mountain or mountain range.
foothill [ˈfʊtˌhɪl]
n
(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) (often plural) a lower slope of a mountain or a relatively low hill at the foot of a mountain
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Noun1.foothillfoothill - a relatively low hill on the lower slope of a mountain
hill - a local and well-defined elevation of the land; "they loved to roam the hills of West Virginia"


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And thence you went speeding swiftly to the mountain ridge, and came to Crisa beneath snowy Parnassus, a foothill turned towards the west: a cliff hangs over if from above, and a hollow, rugged glade runs under.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
The numerous lofty, granite towers which mark the several entrances to the subterranean city were all in front of me--behind, the plain stretched level and unbroken to the nearby foothills.
At the Earth's Core by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
The party had left the low and marshy land of the true jungle, and were among the foothills, though all about them was dense forest and underbush, which, in reality, was as much a jungle as the lower plains, but was less wet.
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