| 单词 | bench-land |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbench-land bench-land n. Geomorphology (originally U.S.) a level tract of land between a river and neighbouring hills; a long, narrow, relatively level area of raised land, bounded by steeper slopes above and below and formed by erosion of rocks of varying resistance; cf. sense 10c. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > level land > [noun] > level place or plain > types of sand-flat1773 alluvial plain1803 sand-plain1818 sandveld1824 tundra1841 bench-land1845 salt flat1873 panfan1915 panplain1933 pediplain1935 soda plain1946 1845 Indiana State Jrnl. (Indianapolis) 21 May The bottom lands, such as were not drowned out, and bench lands, and sandy uplands brought crops, but low grounds and clays had either no corn or but poor crops. 1857 W. Chandless Visit Salt Lake ii. x. 326 Bench-land fifty or hundred feet above the water-level. 1868 W. E. Waters Life among Mormons x. 71 The entire valley, with all the bench-lands and the mountains surrounding these. 1978 J. A. Michener Chesapeake vii. 409 It was clear..that in times past this mighty river had been ten or fifteen times as wide as it now was; proof existed in the flat, smooth benchlands stretching..from its banks. 2000 Native Peoples: Arts & Lifeways No. 5. 66/2 Once the steps provided Chacoans with access from the valley floor to the benchland overhead. 2006 G. Mortenson & D. O. Relin Three Cups of Tea (2007) xxiii. 327 Twenty minutes before Baharak, the river gorge opened into lush benchland between rolling hills. < as lemmas |
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