hummock

«hummock» in Mova's school dictionary: A small, rounded hill or mound of earth, grass or snow; a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a hummock, hummocks)

meaning for a pupil

1) A small, rounded hill or mound of earth, grass or snow; a hump in the ground. tree →

2) A ridge in a field of ice. tree →

sense in the lessons

Geography and nature words for small lumps in the land. In The Wind in the Willows Mole and the Rat struggle through the snowy Wild Wood over hummocks and hollows before they find Badger's door. In stories hummocks make a landscape bumpy and good for hiding.

examples

• The rabbit hid behind a grassy hummock. tree →
• The marsh was full of mossy hummocks. tree →
• Mole stumbled over a hummock in the snow. tree →
• We sat on a hummock to eat our sandwiches. tree →
• Polar bears walk across the ice hummocks. tree →
• The children rolled down the little hummock. tree →

note

Plural: hummocks. Similar: mound, knoll, hillock, hump. Smaller than a hill.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hummock» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.