kopjes's Usage Examples:

The surface is occasionally broken by kopjes - either table-shaped or pointed - rising sometimes too ft.

The flat and round-topped hills (kopjes), which are very numerous on the various plateaus, scarcely afford relief to the eye, which searches the sun-scorched landscape, usually in vain, for running water.

It is common on the rands and kopjes of the bush veld.

They form the kopjes, or characteristic flat-topped hills of the Great Karroo.

On the following day Lord Methuen delivered an attack upon Cronje's position between the Upper Modder river and the Kimberley road, a line of kopjes called Spytfontein and Magersfontein.

The plains are dotted with low ranges of kopjes.

As in the middle veld, rands and kopjes occur in the low or bush veld, but the general characteristic of this part of the country, which covers over 50,000 sq.

It is situated on the open veld, surrounded by a few low kopjes, 4518 ft.

The middle veld is marked by long low stony ridges, known as rands, and these rands and the kopjes are often covered with scrub, while mimosa trees are found in the river valleys.

Synonyms:

knoll, hummock, koppie, hammock, mound, hillock,

Antonyms:

outfield,