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Definition of lowland in English: lowlandnoun ˈləʊlənd mass nounalso lowlands1Low-lying country. economic power gravitated towards the lowlands as modifier lowland farming Example sentencesExamples - The topography of Kerala could be divided into highland, midland and lowland areas.
- The Buddha was born in the Terai lowlands near the foothills of the Himalayas just inside the borders of modern-day Nepal.
- Rising sea levels for Tuvalu have created serious lowland flooding.
- They often move into wooded lowlands in winter, but there is no consistent migration.
- Both in the uplands and the lowlands insects continued to represent an astonishing diversity of forms.
- It primarily grazes and rests on highland or lowland desert, semidesert or steppe.
- The study area is a fragmented landscape of lowland tropical rainforest surrounded by roads, cultivated fields and pasturelands.
- Alpine regions, lowland forests and wetlands all have characteristic species.
- But up in the mountains there are not these extensive areas of lowland tundra where all the birds and the musk oxen can live.
- Roughly made thonged sandals were worn only in lowland areas where the terrain was rocky.
- The refuges were mainly areas of lowland rainforest that survived when savanna became more widely distributed in colder and drier episodes.
- It is believed that the hardest-hit areas will be on the mainland, especially the lowlands.
- The north-east of England is a land where uplands and lowlands meet, and are never far apart.
- Both uplands and lowlands possess a variety of soils.
- It features everything from snow-capped mountains and river canyons to the lowlands of the Amazon basin.
- Both tree species are common in primary and secondary forests, from uplands to lowlands.
- In the summer, they breed on marshy, lowland tundra at the northern limits of the boreal forest.
- Compared with the surrounding terrain, Niamakoroni's lowlands are relatively lush.
- Greystones Farm is a site of special scientific interest, with lowland wet meadow in which orchids flourish.
- To the west lie the Bordeaux lowlands and the Gironde Estuary, to the south the plains of Languedoc, and to the east the Rhône valley.
Synonyms grassland, flatland, pasture, meadowland, open country, prairie, savannah, steppe - 1.1 The region of Scotland lying south and east of the Highlands.
as modifier a strong Lowland accent
Derivatives noun ˈləʊləndə Then a civil war in 1994 brought an influx of lowlanders with malaria to Karuzi. Example sentencesExamples - The valleys have not lost their character but agricultural and industrial changes have depopulated some areas and opened others to an influx of lowlanders seeking holiday and retirement homes.
- Highlanders (those living inland, particularly in mountain areas) tend to see lowlanders (those living in the cities and towns around the coast) as untrustworthy and Westernized.
- Highlanders created a much wider array of networks for themselves than did lowlanders, crossing political and parochial borders in their migrations, marriages, and criminal collusion.
- He confirms that the pillars are those of a burnt house in a burnt village, which the villagers allege was torched by lowlanders and forestry rangers.
Definition of lowland in US English: lowlandnoun also lowlands1Low-lying country. economic power gravitated toward the lowlands as modifier lowland farming Example sentencesExamples - It primarily grazes and rests on highland or lowland desert, semidesert or steppe.
- The north-east of England is a land where uplands and lowlands meet, and are never far apart.
- Roughly made thonged sandals were worn only in lowland areas where the terrain was rocky.
- But up in the mountains there are not these extensive areas of lowland tundra where all the birds and the musk oxen can live.
- Both uplands and lowlands possess a variety of soils.
- It is believed that the hardest-hit areas will be on the mainland, especially the lowlands.
- To the west lie the Bordeaux lowlands and the Gironde Estuary, to the south the plains of Languedoc, and to the east the Rhône valley.
- The refuges were mainly areas of lowland rainforest that survived when savanna became more widely distributed in colder and drier episodes.
- Alpine regions, lowland forests and wetlands all have characteristic species.
- The Buddha was born in the Terai lowlands near the foothills of the Himalayas just inside the borders of modern-day Nepal.
- Rising sea levels for Tuvalu have created serious lowland flooding.
- In the summer, they breed on marshy, lowland tundra at the northern limits of the boreal forest.
- Compared with the surrounding terrain, Niamakoroni's lowlands are relatively lush.
- Both in the uplands and the lowlands insects continued to represent an astonishing diversity of forms.
- They often move into wooded lowlands in winter, but there is no consistent migration.
- Both tree species are common in primary and secondary forests, from uplands to lowlands.
- The study area is a fragmented landscape of lowland tropical rainforest surrounded by roads, cultivated fields and pasturelands.
- Greystones Farm is a site of special scientific interest, with lowland wet meadow in which orchids flourish.
- The topography of Kerala could be divided into highland, midland and lowland areas.
- It features everything from snow-capped mountains and river canyons to the lowlands of the Amazon basin.
Synonyms grassland, flatland, pasture, meadowland, open country, prairie, savannah, steppe - 1.1the Lowlands The region of Scotland lying south and east of the Highlands.
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