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発音

• IPA: /ˈhʌmək/

名詞

hummock (plural hummocks)

1. A small hill; a hillock; a knoll.
   • 2020 [1992], Vernor Vinge, chapter 3, in A Fire Upon the Deep, 1st edition, New York: Tor Essentials, →ISBN, page 36:

     The west edge of their landing area was swarming with…things. Like wolves or dogs, but with long necks, they moved quickly forward, darting from hummock to hummock

2. A ridge or hill of ice in an ice field.
3. (Scotland) A fistful.

関連する語

• hummocked
• hummocking
• hummocky

参照

• hummock on Wikipedia.Wikipedia