Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A little hill; a mount.
  • noun In zoology, one of the ridges of a meandriform coral.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A small hill or mount.

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  • noun A small hill or mount.

Etymologies

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From French colline.

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Examples

  • Dufrenoy in a hurry, I think, and added to the difficulty -- it is the whole hill or "colline" which is composed of tuff with cross-stratification; the central boss or "monticule" is simply trachyte.

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

  • Bologna künkad - colline - kutsuvad täna tugevamalt, kui kunagi varem sel kevadel.

    tatsutahime Diary Entry tatsutahime 2009

  • It is bordered by the lowland-colline subcontinental meadow steppes and dry grassland vegetation on the eastern side, hemiboreal spruce and pine-spruce forests to the north, beech and mixed beech forests of the Carpathians to the south, and the beech and mixed beech forests of the Baltic and Western Europe to the west.

    Central European mixed forests 2008

  • Bastoncini di zucchero scintillano fra le colline di vetro e i riflessi di armi martoriate nel sole al tramonto.

    No Fat Clips!!! : Goobees 2008

  • The book, which was titled Dolci Colline di Sangue (Sweet Hills of Blood, a play on the phrase Dolci colline di Firenze), was scheduled for publication in April 2006.

    The Monster of Florence 2006

  • It is bordered by the lowland-colline subcontinental meadow steppes and dry grassland vegetation on the eastern side, hemiboreal spruce and fir-spruce forests to the north, beech and mixed beech forests of the Carpathians to the south, and the beech and mixed beech forests of the Baltic and Western Europe to the west.

    Central European mixed forests 2008

  • The book, which was titled Dolci Colline di Sangue (Sweet Hills of Blood, a play on the phrase Dolci colline di Firenze), was scheduled for publication in April 2006.

    The Monster of Florence 2006

  • It includes the lowland-colline subcontinental meadow steppes and dry grassland vegetation, and lowland-colline lime oak forests of Eastern Europe.

    Dinaric Mountains mixed forests 2007

  • I fiumi che tagliano la citta brasiliana di Recife sono come vene che collegano più che colline ed oceani: la storia, passato e futuro; tradizioni e generazioni.

    No Fat Clips!!! : ROMERO ALVES – Rios 2007

  • La luna del Th appende come un canarino giallo messo in gabbia sopra il pino di rolling crested le colline toscane e siete l 'unica cosa che ho portato con me e siete l' unica cosa che desidero lasciare.

    wendchymes Diary Entry wendchymes 2007

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  • A small hill or ridge. Cf. Spanish colina.

    November 22, 2010