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PENEPLAIN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does peneplain mean?
• PENEPLAIN (noun)
The noun PENEPLAIN has 1 sense:
1. a more or less level land surface representing an advanced stage of erosion undisturbed by crustal movements
Familiarity information: PENEPLAIN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A more or less level land surface representing an advanced stage of erosion undisturbed by crustal movements
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Synonyms:
peneplain; peneplane
Hypernyms ("peneplain" is a kind of...):
champaign; field; plain (extensive tract of level open land)
Domain category:
geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)
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