knoll

Significado (inglés)

Noun

1. A small mound or rounded hill.
2. A rounded, underwater hill with a prominence of less than 1,000 metres, which does not breach the water's surface.

Verb

1. To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell.
2. To sound (something) like a bell; to knell.
3. To call (someone, to church) by sounding or making a knell (as a bell, a trumpet, etc).

Verb

To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles.

Sinónimos

hill

hillock

mound

hummock

elevation

heap

hammock

bump

mount

hump

height

kopje

knap

swelling

mud

tump

shoulder

steep

tuft

tumulus

tussock

small mountain

tuffet

monticule

pile of earth

earth mound

sea knoll

bulwark

sea zone

bunch

cluster

cumulus

earthwork

full

hilly

hurst

knob

mould

mountain

⛰️

outcropping

pile

rampart

rise

rising ground

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/nəʊl/

Etimoloxía (inglés)

From Middle English knol, knolle, from Old English cnoll (“summit”), from Proto-Germanic *knudan-, *knudla-, *knulla- (“lump”), possibly related to cnotta.
Related to Old Norse knollr (found only in names of places), Dutch knol (“tuber”), Swedish knöl (“tuber”), Danish knold (“hillock, clod, tuber”) and German Knolle (“bulb”).