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PENEPLANE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A more or less level land surface representing an advanced stage of erosion undisturbed by crustal movements
Synonyms:
peneplain; peneplane
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("peneplane" 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)