Sentence examples for hummock from inspiring English sources

In Finland the variant of yet another anthropogonic (origin of man) myth has been found: a hummock rises from the sea, a tree stump thereon splits open, and the first human couple steps forth.

Coral reef, ridge or hummock formed in shallow ocean areas by algae and the calcareous skeletons of certain coelenterates, of which coral polyps are the most important.

The vegetation of the Eremian Zone ranges from barely vegetated desert and hills through a variety of semiarid shrub savannas, shrub steppes, semiarid tussock grasslands, and sclerophyllous hummock grasslands.

Grassland and tundra owls nest on the ground, sometimes on an elevated hummock, and the burrowing owl digs a nest chamber in a rodent burrow.

Much of the Great Dividing Range is defined by forested areas of acacias, eucalyptus (see photo), and casuarinas, with hummock grasses and flowering plants, including banksias, in the undergrowth.

It's the same with every little hummock and patch of grass, every single leaf and blade and ear and flower.

The spiny, hummock-forming spinifex grasses typify Australian deserts, while fleshy, cactuslike species of Euphorbia are conspicuous in deserts located in parts of southern and eastern Africa.

Cities of this kind are like hummocks of spinifex, or porcupine grass, whose centre eventually collapses, leaving live rings surrounding a dead middle.City centres might actually look much deader than they already do but for one curious change.

Thermokarst mounds are polygonal or circular hummocks 3 to 15 metres in diameter and 0.3 to 2.5 metres high that are formed as a polygonal network of ice melts and leaves the inner-ice areas as mounds.

It often grows to a height of 15 metres (50 feet) or more on hummocks and ridges but may be shrubby on barren coastal soils.

The extreme conditions in high-elevation snowfields cause Büsserschnee (German: "snow penitents"), the formation of ablated snow hummocks three feet (one metre) or more tall.