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- noun Plural form of
hommock .
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Examples
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THE lowest sides of these savannas are generally joined by a great cane swamp, varied with coppices and hommocks of the various trees and shrubs already mentioned.
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Page 224 and meadows, little differing from the environs of Capola, diversified with rocky islets or hommocks of dark woodland.
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Page 470 and bushes, in hommocks or higher knolls in the interior parts of vast swamps.
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Above and below the bluff the grounds gradually descend to the common level swamps on the river: back of this eminence opens to view, expansive green meadows or savannas, in which are to be seen glittering ponds of water, surrounded at a great distance, by high open Pine forests and hommocks, and islets of Oaks and Bays projecting into the savannas.
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Corypha palma, &c. there are always groups of whitish testaceous rocks and sinks where these hommocks are.
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English, we are told that the Indians generally retired from the towns and the neighborhood of the whites, and burying themselves in the deep forests, intricate swamps and hommocks, and vast savannas of the interior, devoted themselves to a pastoral life, and the rearing of horses and cattle.
The Crayon Papers Washington Irving 1821
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a circular sweep to the right, and contain many hundred thousand acres of meadow, and this grand sweep of high forests encircles, as I apprehend, at least twenty miles of these green fields, interspersed with hommocks or islets of evergreen trees, where the sovereign Magnolia and lordly Palm stand conspicuous.
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