Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A little hill; a mount.
- noun In zoology, one of the ridges of a meandriform coral.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A small hill or mount.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small
hill ormount .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Dufrenoy in a hurry, I think, and added to the difficulty -- it is the whole hill or "colline" which is composed of tuff with cross-stratification; the central boss or "monticule" is simply trachyte.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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Bologna künkad - colline - kutsuvad täna tugevamalt, kui kunagi varem sel kevadel.
tatsutahime Diary Entry tatsutahime 2009
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It is bordered by the lowland-colline subcontinental meadow steppes and dry grassland vegetation on the eastern side, hemiboreal spruce and pine-spruce forests to the north, beech and mixed beech forests of the Carpathians to the south, and the beech and mixed beech forests of the Baltic and Western Europe to the west.
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Bastoncini di zucchero scintillano fra le colline di vetro e i riflessi di armi martoriate nel sole al tramonto.
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The book, which was titled Dolci Colline di Sangue (Sweet Hills of Blood, a play on the phrase Dolci colline di Firenze), was scheduled for publication in April 2006.
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It is bordered by the lowland-colline subcontinental meadow steppes and dry grassland vegetation on the eastern side, hemiboreal spruce and fir-spruce forests to the north, beech and mixed beech forests of the Carpathians to the south, and the beech and mixed beech forests of the Baltic and Western Europe to the west.
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The book, which was titled Dolci Colline di Sangue (Sweet Hills of Blood, a play on the phrase Dolci colline di Firenze), was scheduled for publication in April 2006.
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It includes the lowland-colline subcontinental meadow steppes and dry grassland vegetation, and lowland-colline lime oak forests of Eastern Europe.
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I fiumi che tagliano la citta brasiliana di Recife sono come vene che collegano più che colline ed oceani: la storia, passato e futuro; tradizioni e generazioni.
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La luna del Th appende come un canarino giallo messo in gabbia sopra il pino di rolling crested le colline toscane e siete l 'unica cosa che ho portato con me e siete l' unica cosa che desidero lasciare.
wendchymes Diary Entry wendchymes 2007
hernesheir commented on the word colline
A small hill or ridge. Cf. Spanish colina.
November 22, 2010