as in bottomland
an area where the land is at, near, or below the level of the sea and where there are not usually mountains or large hills
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a village in the lowlands
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Recent Examples of lowland
Settlement density data, ranging from 49 to 61 structures per square kilometer, indicate that cities and dense settlements are common in large parts of the central Maya lowlands.
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Anna Lagos, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2024
The researchers are now planning to visit Valeriana and the surrounding settlements in person to learn more about the ancient rural population of the Maya lowlands.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2024
Just inland from the Pacific Northwest’s rainforest drip line, with more than 10 feet of rain a year, are the forests dominated by Douglas fir, western red cedar and hemlock, growing in the mild climate with some 70 inches of rain a year, in a thick rumpled green cloak in the Cascade lowlands.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024
The ice fills an immense lowland that sits below sea level and slopes inland.
—Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 19 Sep. 2024
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Anna Lagos, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2024
The researchers are now planning to visit Valeriana and the surrounding settlements in person to learn more about the ancient rural population of the Maya lowlands.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2024
Just inland from the Pacific Northwest’s rainforest drip line, with more than 10 feet of rain a year, are the forests dominated by Douglas fir, western red cedar and hemlock, growing in the mild climate with some 70 inches of rain a year, in a thick rumpled green cloak in the Cascade lowlands.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024
The ice fills an immense lowland that sits below sea level and slopes inland.
—Bypaul Voosen, science.org, 19 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lowland
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There is quite a large area of bottomland forest and marshlands year round.Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Dec. 2024
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Tennessee residents will be able to choose Red Milkweed - a native perennial found in swamps, river bottomlands and wet meadows - and Common Milkweed - another native perennial found in fields, open woods and roadsides, though less than 100,000 seed packets remain for each variety.Katie Nixon, The Tennessean, 13 Oct. 2024
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Smaller explosions peppered the forest and grasslands.C.J. Chivers Robert Fass Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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While mammoths were adapted to cold, open tundras and the grasslands of Europe, North America and Asia during the Ice Age, mastodons were found in woodlands and swampy areas across Central and North America.Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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The teen, who was snapped carrying a watermelon, stood a head taller than his mom, who was photographed in black flats.Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
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Evidence of Mumbai’s colonial past can be found in the city’s chawls, rickety tenement flats stacked upon each other like depressing LEGO blocks.John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 15 Jan. 2025
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They are found in forests, savannas and wetlands of West Africa.Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
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By 2050, the entire region could be irreversibly on the path to becoming a savanna.Nemonte Nenquimo, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2024
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Thousands of years ago, southern Wisconsin transitioned from a closed-canopy oak forest to an oak savanna—in an open prairie, oaks, instead of growing straight and tall, branch too early for canoe-making.Jacqueline Kehoe, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2024
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia CNN — Grasslands — also known as prairies, steppes, pampas or savannas — are home to 25% of the world’s population and all kinds of plants and wildlife, including elephants, rhinos and lions.Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 6 Dec. 2024
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Born 43 years ago in the high steppes of Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia—a two-and-a-half-hour drive from the Russian border—the Chinese bass Peixin Chen sings in primordial tones that set the whole hall and the listener’s rib cage humming.airmail.news, airmail.news, 7 Dec. 2024
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia CNN — Grasslands — also known as prairies, steppes, pampas or savannas — are home to 25% of the world’s population and all kinds of plants and wildlife, including elephants, rhinos and lions.Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 6 Dec. 2024
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What's next: The tundra carbon finding is a signal of other fundamental shifts yet to come across the Arctic.Andrew Freedman, Axios, 11 Dec. 2024
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With a land mass roughly a quarter the size of the US and a population of only 60,000, Greenland remains a mostly untouched tundra refuge.Jordan Riefe, Robb Report, 2 Dec. 2024
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Use it for fresh buds or a few pampas stems to liven up your living room or sleeping space.Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 11 Oct. 2023
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Shop vibrant blooms like coral daisies, autumn sunflowers and golden yarrow, plus grass stems like pampas, wheat and bunny tails.Alyssa Gautieri, Good Housekeeping, 13 June 2023
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“Lowland.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lowland. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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