The edge, margin, verge of a wood, lake, cloud, etc.; the foot or lower slopes of a mountain or hill.

The region or area at the foot of a mountain or mountain range; spec. a gentle slope leading from the foot of a mountain to a region of flat land.

transferred e.g. the stem of a plant, the lower trunk of a tree, the lower slopes of a mountain.

Geomorphology. A broad, gently sloping, eroded rock surface that extends outwards from the abrupt foot of a mountain in arid and semi-arid regions…

a rock-floored mountain pass connecting the top of a developing pediment on one side to another on the other side.

A piedmont slope in arid and semi-arid regions comprising a pediment and a peripediment (or just one of these, if the other is not present). Cf. pedi…

A broad, gently sloping surface on detrital alluvium that either extends outwards from a mountain foot in an arid or semi-arid region or else…