An Indian English adjective describing terrain that is full of ravines — heavily gullied or eroded landscape. The word is a straightforward formation from ravine plus -ous, and is used in geographical and agricultural writing about the Indian subcontinent, where ravine erosion is a significant landscape feature.
The ravinous terrain along the river made cultivation impossible on either bank.
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(India) Full of ravines.
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