massif

/ma-seef, mas-if; French ma-seef/US // mæˈsif, ˈmæs ɪf; French maˈsif //UK // (ˈmæsiːf, French masif) //

丘陵地带,丘陵,丘陵地貌,丘陵区

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a compact portion of a mountain range, containing one or more summits.
- : a large elevated block of old complex rocks resistant to both erosion and crustal folding.
- : a band or zone of the earth's crust raised or depressed as a unit and bounded by faults.

as inmountain range

Synonyms

Its most striking feature is the mountainous and eruptive area known as the Massif Central, which covers south-central France.
Massif will publish it at his own expense, and you will appear before the public in one month.
Massif ought to pay him in a few days five hundred francs for the second edition of his book; but what is a handful of napoleons?
Beyond that it swells out into the vast massif of Anambaruin-ula, which is traversed by at least three minor parallel chains.
C'est un massif compacte, et presque partout le mme, de minral de plomb et argent pauvre, pntr de pyrite sulphureuse.