Word of the Day
Declivity
[də-KLIV-ə-dee]
Part of speech: noun
Origin: Latin, early 17th century
1.
A downward slope.
Examples of Declivity in a sentence
"The landscape architect designed the garden to complement the natural declivity."
"There was no longer a creek, but the bridge still spanned over a large declivity."
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