单词 | drumlinoid |
释义 | drumlinoidadj.n. Physical Geography. A. adj. Of a hill or other landform: resembling a drumlin in shape. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [adjective] > other characteristics bosomed1744 sub-mountain1841 tooth-set1860 drumlinoid1894 swine-backed1908 1894 Amer. Geologist. 12 394 This suggests that a re-advance of the ice modified the terminal moraine deposits into drumlinoid forms. 1904 Sci. Amer. Suppl. 16 Jan. 23447 Some of the principal ridges present drumlinoid profiles. 1947 Geogr. Rev. 37 651 There are a number of groups of drumlinoid till ridges. 2009 H. Wilson Trails & Tribulations xiv. 155 Literally hundreds of rock types and minerals lay exposed..both along the beach and all over the drumlinoid hill where we now stood. B. n. A hill or ridge apparently formed by glacial action and with a shape typically lower and more elongated than that of a drumlin. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [noun] > other holt1567 beacon1597 ward-hill?a1680 nubble1776 sub-mountain1799 drumlinoid1895 1895 H. Fairchild in W. F. Peck et al. Landmarks Monroe County, N.Y. 194 The drumlinoids have a direction some ten to fifteen degrees west of south. 1953 Canad. Geographer iii. 19 In some places, individual drumlinoids may extend over a distance of several miles, in others they are very much shorter and resemble drumlins in form. 2007 D. Ford & P. Williams Karst Hydrogeol. & Geomorphol. x. 415 (caption) Detail of the calcite deposition around a limestone drumlinoid. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1894 |
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