Thesaurus results for LOWLAND

lowland

noun

as in bottomland

an area where the land is at, near, or below the level of the sea and where there are not usually mountains or large hills

—usually plural a village in the lowlands

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Recent Examples of lowland On Earth, tectonics build mountain ranges and deep lowlands that guide and connect river systems. —

Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 11 Dec. 2025 Red laterite roads thread through the cityscape, while remaining lowland forests stand as a reminder of the city’s ecological heritage. —

Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Dec. 2025 Coca cultivation has spread from remote mountainous areas into Peru’s lowlands, a huge stretch of land adjoining Brazil and Colombia, where new variants thrive. —

Tim Lister, CNN Money, 22 Nov. 2025 Tucked away in the lowlands of the Adirondacks, a few miles south of Lake George, Saratoga Springs, New York, is surrounded by some of the most striking landscapes in all of Upstate. —

Cat Sposato, Travel + Leisure, 4 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lowland

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Noun

Go for a Hike at Woodlands Conservancy Hike through one of the region’s last remaining stands of bottomland hardwood forest at the Woodlands Preserve.

— Kristy Christiansen, Southern Living, 25 Dec. 2025
Whitmer, in November 2020, sent notice of her intention to revoke the state's 1953 easement with the company allowing the pipelines underwater on the Straits of Mackinac bottomlands.

— Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 17 Dec. 2025