mounded
- adjective
- /ˈmaʊndɪd/
- The garden featured a beautiful mounded flower bed filled with colorful blooms.
Examples
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A very dense, low mounded kind of growth habit.
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Rory trailed them outside to their mounded little home.
Fiction book (1990) -
We built a mounded sandcastle on the beach, complete with towers and a moat.
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The children played on the mounded hills, rolling down the grassy slopes.
Synonyms
An area with many hills
Having a rounded top like a roof or a turtle shell
An area with many small rounded hills or mounds
Ground with many small hills making it bumpy
A place or object that has a small hill of earth over it
Antonyms
Compounds
How Raised
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word mounded comes from mound, a word for a 'small hill' or pile, and a helpful way to remember it is to think of mount in mountain, both meaning a rise. So mounded describes something shaped into a raised, rounded pile.