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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--peneplain This week's theme: words to describe the Earth's features. peneplain (PEE-nuh-playn, pee-nuh-PLAYN) noun An area of nearly flat, featureless land formed by a long period of erosion. [From pene- (almost), from Latin paene + plain, from Latin planus.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "You are Xerxes in Persia. Your army spreads on a vast and arid peneplain." Annie Dillard; Pilgrim at Tinker Creek; Harper's Magazine Press; 1974. X-Bonus Literature is the language of society, as speech is the language of man. -Louis de Bonald, philosopher and politician (1754-1840)

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