Meaning & use
Tumulous
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Covered with or characterized by mounds or small hills.
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The tumulous landscape made the old battlefield hard to survey on foot.
Archaeologists mapped the tumulous terrain dotted with ancient burial mounds.
A note on using this word
Related to 'tumulus' (a burial mound); the adjective is rare and appears mostly in older geographical or archaeological writing.
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