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sandhill

noun

Etymology

From sand + hill.

  1. inherited from *hulliz✻ — “hill”
  2. inherited from *hulli✻ — “hill”
  3. inherited from hyll — “hill”
  4. inherited from hil — “hill”
  5. compounded as sandhill — “sand + hill”

Definitions

  1. A dune or sandpile.

    • He resumed running in November, varying the workload by running in sandhills, on ovals and tennis courts[…].

  2. A sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis).

    • Adult sandhills can be 4 to 5 feet tall.

The neighborhood

Derived

Sand Hill, sandhill frog, sandhill milkweed

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sandhill. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA