The word "hillock" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word "hillock" to refer to a small hill or a rounded area of higher ground, usually smaller than a hill. Example sentence: We stopped to picnic near a hillock that was at the top of the mountain.
Some huts in the area can be booked in advance, such as Chattai beach huts, built on a hillock 150m from the sea.
The European Commission will spend €600m this year on export subsidies and buying unwanted dairy goods which will then moulder in cold storage (the EU is not recreating mountains, insists one Eurocrat, "more a butter hillock").There is an economic crisis, national officials say, when challenged on this backsliding.
The futuristic biotechnology research hub designed by Zaha Hadid is situated atop a verdant hillock, now slowly disappearing under a thicket of imposing glass-and-steel structures that are connected by suspended walkways which permit people to nip from one lab to another without getting drenched by the equatorial island state's frequent torrential rains.
For a time it was famous for a hillock of abandoned fridges.
The paddy-fields were brown and denuded, flecked with elegant white birds combing for paddies and small fish.At Nambol, 10km south of the capital, we made a brief stop at the foot of a sudden, steep hillock where a rusting field-gun and small white stupa remembered 55,000 Japanese war-casualties.
Despite a huge security operation, the duo had somehow managed to hide themselves in a derelict building on a rocky hillock overlooking the stadium.
"WE HAVE an excellent relationship with the soldiers on the other side," says Khalilar Rahman, a Bangladesh Rifles commander at a remote outpost on a hillock in Ghumdhum, on the border with Myanmar.
When there is more moisture, sedges and grasses become important and form tussock or hillock tundra; willow and dwarf birch may be found between the individual mounds.
The axon arises from the soma at a region called the axon hillock, or initial segment.
Once an action potential has been generated at the axon hillock, it is conducted along the length of the axon until it reaches the terminals, the fingerlike extensions of the neuron that are next to other neurons and muscle cells (see the section The nerve cell: The neuron).
The contents of a royal tumulus (an artificial hillock or mound over a grave) burial at Gordium testify to the competence of Phrygian craftsmanship in other materials, including glass.
