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Answer for the clue "Non-hilly terrain ", 8 letters:
flatland

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Word definitions for flatland in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any land of relatively constant altitude (with no hills).

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1735, from flat (adj.) + land (n.). Edwin Abbott's popular book about an imaginary two-dimensional world was published in 1884.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Flatland is an 1884 novella by Edwin Abbott. Flatland or Flatlands may also refer to:

Usage examples of flatland.

Run Flatlands just as it had hammered through the Taibek foothills and Agave Dales.

Britt and Kelly far beyond the wooded suburban byroads and onto the new needle-straight highway that stretches across the middle flatlands toward the moors and Wiltshire County.

Our answer, as always, is never to be found in flatland, in the world of black checkers scurrying endlessly, meaninglessly, dimly, and disappearing finally into those dark shades of the night that are ever so fundamental, ever so insignificant.

Sum Total of what should be uniformly happy Egos fitting snug as a bug into sensory flatland: you have disrupted the cavalcade of smiley-faced Shadows.

The scattered undergrowth was woodier than the fuzzy and formless fernlike growth on the flatland.

Across the degraded flatlands the lanes grew ever more clogged with traffic pressing toward the distant brownish towers of Dis, which for a long time seemed to grow no closer, until all the traffic rushed together into the aortic tunnel, abandon all hope, and out into the scarred old heart of it, always a surprise somehow to find it surrounding you, Heraclitean, the same but never the same.

A peculiar aura like the deceptive Flatland marshlights shimmered around him, and through it his hair gleamed gold.

Formerly, the canyon had possessed a distinctly odd feature: the river Ophion did not flow out of it into the flatlands to the west, but in the other direction.

Just as, in the Pickover book which Gus had read in childhood, five disconnected blobs appearing on the surface of a Flatland balloon might really be fingerprints from a single, otherworldly hand.

With the low water of summer it finished in a sort of shrub-choked flatland of deep grass, sugarberry, palmetto, and mimosa, but its high-water course was marked by an intermittent line of cypress and magnolia, leading to a thin belt of trees that screened the higher ground.

After refueling, the two Aerospatiale Gazelle utility helicopters closely followed the vegetation-rich flatlands surrounding the Euphrates, each under the power of a single turboshaft, which enabled the Iraqi craft to carry two pods of Matra 68mm rockets and two 7.

Through Novalis and Schelling, it would be the roots of the Romantic and Idealist Rebellion against the flatland aspects of the Enlightenment.

To the extent that either attempts to escape the flatland interlocking order at all, they do so by regression to agrarian alchemy, magico-mythic animism, astrology, horticultural planting mythology, or foraging human-nature indissociationall of which is based, of course, on the new physics.

And, as we have seen, since flatland eco-holism confuses great span with great depth, it gets the instrumentalization itself exactly backward.

Interiors deal with degrees of intentions, not extensions, and trying to convert all evolutionary changes into physical size is simply part of the flattening of the Kosmos, part of the brutalization of qualitative distinctions, that has marked the instrumentalism of all flatland ontologies.