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| small group of trees (usually without undergrowth) |
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| leafy tree-enclosed nook or recess |
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| growth or array of one type of tree (shrub, or plant) in an area |
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| cluster of shrubs or small trees |
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| grass-covered tract of level land |
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| decaying leaves, twigs, and other organic matter covering a forest floor |
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| greenery as cover (or food for deer) |
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| grassy (or non-woody) vegetation |
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| extensive are of treeless grassland |
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| HOLE, CAVITY, DEPRESSION, HOLLOW, BASIN, PAN |
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| opening or recession in terrain |
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| open longitudinal depression |
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| small and nestled (usually wooded) valley |
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| HOLLOW, COMBE, COMB, COOMBE |
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| GORGE, RAVINE, FLUME, GULCH, CLOUGH |
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| small and narrow steep-sided valley (often with a stream) |
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| GULLY, CLOUGH, DRAW, WASH |
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| small ravine sometimes having rainwater flowing in it |
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| SINKHOLE, SINK, SWALLOW, SWALLOWHOLE |
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| drainage depression or hollow |
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| extensive or deep mucky or mossy basin |
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| level area covered by shallow water at high tide |
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| KNOLL, HILLOCK, MOUND, MONTICLE |
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| rounded solitary hill usually with steep sides |
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| gentle slope, or a slope that runs downward from a fortification |
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| open upland of rolling hills or open country, or an area of hilly land in the country |
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| rolling grassy upland with few trees |
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| SCARP, ESCARPMENT, PALISADE, PALISADES |
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| cliff formation or line of cliffs |
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| WALL, CLIFF, BLUFF, CRAG, FACE |
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| steep and bare rocky outcrop or cliff |
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| narrow level space along or projecting from a cliff or slope |
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| cliff or wall projection view from below |
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| rocky detritus (debris) on a mountain slope |
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| wall-like ridge of rocks, ice, or other debris |
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| underground layer containing and yielding water |
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| upper limit of an underground area saturated with water |
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| ledge-like plain above a river or body of water |
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| low terrain along a watercourse |
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| tract of low-lying soggy soil |
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| MARSH, MARSHLAND, BOG, FEN, SWAMP, SWAMPLAND, WASH, SLOUGH, SLEW, SLUE |
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| tract of low and wet or spongy ground |
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| swampy grassland with branching waterways |
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| rough or marshy tract of land with one kind of vegetation (shrubs or ferns) |
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| sunken and wet tract of land |
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| moist low-lying land (usually pineland) |
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| pool of water between two beaches |
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| BAR, SANDBAR, SANDBANK, SHOAL |
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| submerged (or partly so) bank of sand or gravel obstructive to navigation |
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| giant circular rotation system of surface currents in the ocean |
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| STREAM, BROOK, CREEK, RUN |
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| inland-flowing course of fresh water smaller than a river |
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| STREAMLET, BROOKLET, RIVULET, RILL, RUNNEL, BURN, BOURN, BOURNE |
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| stream winding around a neck of land |
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| river’s source or upper tributary |
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| onrushing or raging stream |
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| runoff of water from melted snow |
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| oldest and densest ice, pale blue in color, in a glacier |
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| OCEANIC, MARINE, PELAGIC, THALASSIC, MARITIME |
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| pertaining to or like the ocean |
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| pertaining to the ocean depths or bottom |
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| pertaining to or like a lake |
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| pertaining to or like a river |
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| pertaining to or like a riverbank |
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| pertaining to or like a shore |
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| SWAMPY, MARSHY, QUAGGY, BOGGY, PALUDAL |
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| pertaining to or like a swamp |
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| pertaining to or like a plain or field |
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| pertaining to or like an island |
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| pertaining to an ocean zone from the low-water line to the edge of the continental shelf |
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| pertaining to an ocean zone from the continental shelf to a depth of some 13,000 feet (4,000 meters) |
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| pertaining to an ocean zone from some 13,000 feet (4,000 meters) to 20,000 feet (6,500 meters) |
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| pertaining to an ocean zone deeper 13,000 feet (6,500 meters) |
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| narrow tree- or branch-covered and park-like walk |
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| grassland tract for grazing or hay |
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| hedge-forming line of bushes or small trees that separate or enclose fields |
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| enclosed field or pasture for animals |
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| BREAKWATER, SEAWALL, MOLE |
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| beach- or harbor-protective structure offshore |
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| excavated earthen construction, as for protection or fortification |
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| characterized by good weather |
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| refreshingly cool or chill |
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| marked shift in wind speed and direction over a short area |
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| downward-flowing current of air |
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| being or situated beyond the mountains, coming from the other side of the mountains; foreign, barbarous |
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| sea spray blown by the wind |
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| NEW MOON, DARK OF THE MOON |
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| lunar phase when the moon is between the earth and the sun, making it visible at sunset only as a narrow crescent |
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| the coinciding of a full moon or new moon with its nearest orbital position to the earth |
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| second full moon occurring in a single month |
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| lunar phase of a full moon closest in time to the autumnal (September) equinox |
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| lunar phase showing more than half of the moon illuminated (if less, it’s Crescent) |
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| in an orbit, the nearest point of the moon from the earth |
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| in an orbit, the farthest point of the moon from the earth |
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| reddish moon associated with a total lunar eclipse |
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| eclipse when the moon is between the earth and the sun and, appearing smaller than the sun, has a bright ring around it. |
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| area of only partial shadow, as during an eclipse |
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| point in the path of a celestial body when it is nearest the sun |
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| point in the path of a celestial body when it is farthest from the sun |
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| cloud mass like a formless gray horizontal sheet, from which may come a drizzle; the sky looks heavy and leaden; bases and tops of clouds are formed |
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| separate, distinctively shaped puffs or fleecy domed or towered piles of cloud, brightly white in sunlight with darker base; upper parts often like cauliflower |
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| grayish, rounded, roll-like masses forming an extensive layer; often look like altocumulus but are lower. |
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| mountainously high and often dark storm cloud (or thunderheads) with swellings or “towers” and frequently a flattened, anvil-like plume; often with ragged cloudlets underneath |
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| a gray and smooth, sometimes striated (striped) or fibrous (stringlike) uniform veil of grayish or bluish cloud through which the sun may palely shine (as if through frosted glass) |
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| cloud mass of various shapes, disconnected lumps or patches or a jumble of billowing cloudlets white or gray or both; sometime lining up in parallel bands; sometimes with “towers,” resembling cumulus |
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| an amorpheous gray or dark cloud layer, blotting out the sun and often unseen because rain or snow is falling from it; sometimes with ragged clouds below. |
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| delicate white wisps or filaments of cloud, sometime with a silky look; or like fibrous threads with hooks at the end; often seem to converge at a point on the horizon. A long and narrow cirrus cloud with a flowing appearance is a mare’s tail. |
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| a thin, smooth, fibrous whitish cloud with which one often sees a halo effect around (but not obscuring) the sun; contourless and transparent, with no shadows cast on the ground. |
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| a thin white layer of cloud, with no shading and with a ripple or other regular pattern; usually too thin to cause shadows below; often known as mackerel clouds, a mackerel sky, or a buttermilk sky. |
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| shelter from wind or weather given by a neighboring object, especially nearby land; protective shelter; the side or part that is sheltered or turned away from the wind. |
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| clouds, spray, or mist driven by the wind; a driving shower or gust of wind; low-drifting clouds appearing beneath a cloud from which precipitation is falling. |
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