CLIVOSE ADJ. full of hills, hilly, steep ...1731 ETYMOLOGY from Latin clīvōsus (hilly, steep), from Latin clīvus (slope, hill) FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1731 - CLIVOSE [clivosus, L] full of cliffs, steep and hanging downwards From: The Universal Etymological English Dictionary - Nathan Bailey EXAMPLE "...Since the streams have cut deeply into the surface, the canon of the mesa resembles greatly the canon of the foot-hills. There are riparian, rupestrine, clivose, and fontinal elements compressed within the space of a few feet..." From: The Flora of Boulder, Colorado, and Vicinity - Francis Potter Daniels, 1911
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