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highland

adjective as in mountainous

noun as in eminence

noun as in mesa

noun as in plateau

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noun as in rise

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But using remote sensing technology, archeologists have now found at least two highland cities that sat along a key crossroad of the trade routes.

From BBC

Pregnant people living in highland regions who have never had malaria before are worst-positioned to survive the bite of an infected mosquito.

From Salon

A mortuary practice known as Log Coffin culture characterizes the Iron Age of highland Pang Mapha in northwestern Thailand.

For example, highland herders typically move across zones with rich grass resources toward the more limited arable niches on the plateau.

The trees were discovered growing beneath the Kalahari sands of highland Angola, in central Africa.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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