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Declivitous

adjective
1.
Sloping down rather steeply.  Synonyms: downhill, downward-sloping.





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"Declivitous" Quotes from Famous Books



... on a bright May morning, three days subsequently to Rita's arrival at Segura, that a small train of horsemen was seen winding along the declivitous paths that lead across the sierra of Elgua, a part of the northern boundary of the province of Alava. The snows with which, during the long winter, the upper portion of these mountains had been covered, had disappeared ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 • Various


Words linked to "Declivitous" :   declivity, descending, downward-sloping


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