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(South Africa) a small hill rising up from the African veld
Answer for the clue "(South Africa) a small hill rising up from the African veld ", 6 letters:
koppie
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
kopje \kop"je\, koppie \kop"pie\(k[o^]p"[i^]) n. [South African D., dim. of kop. See Kop .] A hillock; a small kop, especially a small hill rising up from the African veld. [South Africa] Note: The colloqual Dutch pronunciation as here given is the usual ...
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n. (alternative form of kopje English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a small hill rising up from the African veld [syn: kopje ]
Usage examples of koppie.
Bending to the left, we circled round a number of unclimbable koppies, beneath which that tunnel passed, and so at length arrived upon the brow of the dark ravine where we could sleep safe from attack by night.
Miles upon miles of plain, rolling east and west and north and south like the billows of a frozen sea, only broken, far along the Heidelberg road, by some hills, known as Rooi Koppies.
It is a wonderfully beautiful piece of bush veldt, with great ranges of mountains running through it, and round granite koppies starting up here and there, looking out like sentinels over the rolling waste of bush.
From the top of one of the low wooded koppies Lothar looked down across the Swakop river to the roofs and the church spire of the village beyond.
But to geologists and palaeontologists this land of sandstones and shales, piled up into the tablelands the Afrikaners called koppies, was one of the Earth's greatest storehouses: a thousand-mile slab of sedimentary rock that was the best record on Earth of land-animal evolution.