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- noun Plural form of
lowland .
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Examples
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Most of Scotland outside of the southern lowlands is pretty much the same state as it was when the Picts were conducting raids on the Romans.
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A well-documented and supported theory for the decline of the Maya central lowlands is the deterioration of trade routes.
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A well-documented and supported theory for the decline of the Maya central lowlands is the deterioration of trade routes.
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The capybara, for instance, is at home in the Latin American lowlands, where the climate is hot and humid and floods cause seasonal inundations.
Chapter 3 1991
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He was a good gouger, and had marked up most of the boys on the "flats" as we called the lowlands where the poorer working people lived.
The Iron Puddler Davis, James J 1922
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The Sierras’ isolation from the Andes by dry lowlands is one of the unique characteristics of this ecoregion.
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One strong contender is Ilopango in El Salvador, whose eruption caused major depopulation in Maya lowlands around this time.
Weatherwatch: British summers can be like the Dark Ages 2011
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Set in a place called the lowlands, our protagonists must confront a massive empire that has slowly been swallowing all the scattered lands of humans.
Empire in Black and Gold, A review Big Jim 2008
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Set in a place called the lowlands, our protagonists must confront a massive empire that has slowly been swallowing all the scattered lands of humans.
Archive 2008-09-01 Big Jim 2008
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The lowlands were the only habitable land areas and were occupied in the first decade or two of settlement.
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