LOWLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lowland mean? 

• LOWLAND (noun)
  The noun LOWLAND has 1 sense:

1. low level country

  Familiarity information: LOWLAND used as a noun is very rare.

• LOWLAND (adjective)
  The adjective LOWLAND has 1 sense:

1. of relatively low or level country

  Familiarity information: LOWLAND used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOWLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Low level country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("lowland" is a kind of...):

depression; natural depression (a sunken or depressed geological formation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lowland"):

landfill (a low area that has been filled in)

Instance hyponyms:

Lowlands; Lowlands of Scotland (the southern part of Scotland that is not mountainous)

Antonym:

highland (elevated (e.g., mountainous) land)

• LOWLAND (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of relatively low or level country

Similar:

low-lying; sea-level (lying below the normal level)

Antonym:

upland (used of high or hilly country)

 Context examples 

Models of forest age in 2008 show that 17 percent of the forest area in lowland Latin America consists of young second-growth forest (1-20 years) and 11 percent consists of intermediate age forest (20-60 years).

(Natural regeneration of tropical forests helps global climate mitigation and forest restoration, NSF)

South of the Adour the jagged line of mountains which fringe the sky-line send out long granite claws, running down into the lowlands and dividing them into “gaves” or stretches of valley.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Wilson's team concentrated on those equatorial areas, particularly with a 600-mile (1,000-kilometer) stretch of loose, easily erodible material between the northern lowlands and southern highlands along the Medusae Fossae Formation.

(A Fresh Look at Older Data Yields a Surprise Near the Martian Equator, NASA)

Before us, over the tree-tops, we beheld the Cape of the Woods fringed with surf; behind, we not only looked down upon the anchorage and Skeleton Island, but saw—clear across the spit and the eastern lowlands—a great field of open sea upon the east. Sheer above us rose the Spyglass, here dotted with single pines, there black with precipices.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It has geologically distinct hemispheres, with smooth lowlands in the north and cratered, high-elevation terrain in the south. The red planet also has two small oddly-shaped oblong moons and a composition that sets it apart from that of the Earth.

(Ancient Asteroid Impact Explains Martian Geological Mysteries, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

He had followed the trail of his fleeing people for eleven days, and his pursuit had been in itself a flight; for behind him he knew full well were the dreaded Russians, toiling through the swampy lowlands and over the steep divides, bent on no less than the extermination of all his people.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

At last—I think it was on the third night—the doctor and I were strolling on the shoulder of the hill where it overlooks the lowlands of the isle, when, from out the thick darkness below, the wind brought us a noise between shrieking and singing.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The studies aimed to model the areas covered by regrowth forests across the lowlands of the Latin American Tropics in two age classes; to project potential above-ground carbon storage in these young forests over four decades; and to illustrate alternative scenarios for carbon storage where 0-80 percent of these forests are allowed to regenerate.

(Natural regeneration of tropical forests helps global climate mitigation and forest restoration, NSF)