noun
- small hills or mounds of earth
- ridges or piles of ice pushed up by pressure
Usage: Arctic/polar contexts
Examples
- The field was dotted with grassy hummocks.
- We climbed over several small hummocks to reach the lake.
- The Arctic explorers navigated around towering ice hummocks.
- Moss-covered hummocks made walking difficult in the wetland.
- The ship was trapped between massive hummocks of pack ice.
- Children played hide-and-seek behind the hummocks in the meadow.