Dictionary entry

Circumdenudation

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Cir′cum‐den′u‐da″tion (?), n. [Pref. circum- + denudation.] (Geol.) Denudation around or in the neighborhood of an object.

Hills of circumdenudation, hills which have been produced by surface erosion; the elevations which have been left, after denudation of a mass of high ground. Jukes.