1
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: of or relating to the Lowlands of Scotland
2
: of or relating to a lowland
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Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
In the 1600s, a Swiss medical student named Johannes Hofer studied mercenaries in the Italian and French lowlands who longed desperately for their mountain homelands.
—Chelsea Reid, The Conversation, 17 June 2025
WIRED, 17 Oct. 2023
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Noun
This feature provides a dispersal pathway for organisms from the Amazon region to move westward to the Pacific lowlands and vice versa, thereby changing their natural biogeographic ranges.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
In the 1600s, a Swiss medical student named Johannes Hofer studied mercenaries in the Italian and French lowlands who longed desperately for their mountain homelands.
—Chelsea Reid, The Conversation, 17 June 2025
Adjective
Writing today in the journal Nature Communications, researchers describe a proof-of-concept project in the lowland Chocó region of Ecuador that shows the potential power of bioacoustics in conserving forests.
—WIRED, 17 Oct. 2023
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“Lowland.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lowland. Accessed 8 Jul. 2025.
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