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 In the lowland areas that include Los Angeles, rattlesnakes have underground burrows that are home to one or maybe two snakes, Taylor said. —

Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2026 Hot, humid, and lush, the delta shelters freshwater forests, aquatic ecosystems, and lowland jungle where soaring iroko and palm trees mirror themselves in the emerald waters. —

Noo Saro-Wiwa, The Dial, 24 Mar. 2026 Immediately upon regaining control of the lowlands of São Tomé, the Portuguese dedicated scarce manpower and equipment to the resumption of sugar cultivation, the repair of the mills, and the terrorizing of new shipments of captives. —

Literary Hub, 19 Mar. 2026 These king cobras prefer the cool, rainy montane forests along Goa’s eastern border, not the dry, lowland western part of the state, says study co-author Hinrich Kaiser, a herpetologist at Victor Valley College in California. —

Richard Kemeny, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for lowland

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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