hommock
/ˈhɑmək/
noun
- A small hill or mound of earth, often in a marshy or flat area.
- During the hike, we rested on a hommock surrounded by tall reeds.
- We climbed a grassy hommock to get a better view of the swamp.
- The farmer's field was dotted with low hommocks where the ground was slightly higher.
- A clump or cluster of trees or vegetation, especially in a wetland or prairie.
- Birds nested in the thick hommock of bushes at the edge of the marsh.
- The alligator was spotted near a dense hommock of cypress trees.
- We paddled our canoe toward a small hommock of palmettos for shade.
- A hummock or ridge of ice on a frozen body of water.
- Seals often rest on a hommock of ice to avoid predators in the water.
- The Arctic explorers had to navigate around a large hommock of ice.
- Pressure from the ocean current created a jagged hommock on the frozen sea.