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形容詞

hill-like (comparative more hill-like, superlative most hill-like)

1. Alternative form of hilllike

語源

hill +‎ -like

形容詞

hilllike (comparative more hilllike, superlative most hilllike)

1. Resembling a hill or hills.
   • 1983, Rik Pinxten, Ingrid Van Dooren, Frank Harvey, Anthropology of space

     […] it is visualized as a formation with ends coming down, or a hilllike formation, leveling out near the end of its length.

   • 1983, Rachel Swayze O'Connor, Allie Bayne Windham Webb, Mistress of Evergreen Plantation: Rachel O'Connor's legacy of letters, 1823-1845

     They are raised hilllike areas rising above the surrounding flat marshlands.

   • 1990, Les Holliday, Geoff Rodgers, Coral reefs: a global view

     Patch reefs are hilllike reefs that often occur in sandy lagoon areas or on the upper reef slope of gently inclined fringing reefs.

使用する際の注意点

• hill-like is several times more common than hilllike in print.^[1] GPO manual recommends using a hyphen to avoid a triple consonant.^[2]

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