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What is the difference between hillside and acclivous?

hillside | acclivous |

As a noun hillside

is the side of a hill.

As an adjective acclivous is

sloping upward; rising like a hillside.

hillside

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The side of a hill.
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    • , title= A new prescription , passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants.}}

    acclivous

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • sloping upward; rising like a hillside.

    • Antonyms

    * declivous