MEANING
An extensive landscape reduced by prolonged erosion to relatively small differences in elevation.
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- ancient peneplain
- eroded peneplain
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Isolated hills survived above the ancient peneplain.
The map showed a peneplain rather than a young mountain range.
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- peneplain
Usage notes
Primary category: environment. Forms: Singular peneplain; plural peneplains. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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