Noun:

கீழ்நோக்கிய சரிவு,

declivities's Usage Examples:

It is well stocked with trout, and the steep declivities of the lower valley furnish red wines of excellent quality.

numerous rills run down the declivities, forming cascades, which are, however, generally devoid of beauty.

Denudation has continued active ever since, and now, owing to greater hardness and consequent power of resistance, the glassy lava stands up as the prominent and picturesque ridge of the Scuir, while the basalts which formerly rose high above it have been worn down into terraced declivities that slope away from it to the sea.

Through these Rocky Mountains the explorers and furtraders, by ascending the streams running down the eastern declivities of the mountains, and crossing by short portages to the streams of the western slope, have succeeded in discovering passes by which the mountain chain can be crossed, the range rarely exceeding 60 m.

the declivities towards the sea are steep, and in places rise abruptly some 400 ft.

On the north their declivities are steep and rugged.

Bounded on the south and west by the valley of the Rhine, to which its declivities abruptly descend, and running parallel to, and forming the counterpart of the Vosges beyond, it slopes more gently down to the valley of the Neckar in the north and to that of the Nagold (a tributary of the Neckar) on the north-east.

The hemlock prefers rather dry and elevated situations, often forming woods on the declivities of mountains.

The declivities of the ground are still indicated in most topographical maps by a system of strokes or hachures, first devised by L.

In the time of the Peisistratids the Agora was enlarged so as to extend over the Inner Ceramicus on the north-west, apparently reaching the northern declivities of the Areopagus and the Acropolis on the south.

maximum, grows in wet sandy declivities by railway embankments or streams, 'c.

in height, and bounded by steep declivities and sometimes by precipices.

Synonyms:

slope, steep, incline, downslope, declination, side, declension, downhill, descent, decline, fall,

Antonyms:

ascent, natural depression, descent, gradualness, abruptness,