foot·hill /ˈfʊtˌhɪl/ noun [countableC usually plural]
DNone of the smaller hills below a group of high mountains 山麓丘陵
the foothills of the Himalayas
喜马拉雅山脉的山麓丘陵
Examples from the Corpus
foothill• Its massivecone rose five thousand feet above the Bahdu plain and a chain of foothillsstretched south-west parallel with the Awash.• No trees or foothills this time; it was all cleared land, dryrice paddies, and sandy, weed-patched fields.• At Scott FlatReservoir in the Sierrafoothills, heavyrain with hail.• There, in the foothills of the Ruwenzoris, we heard, of all the sounds in the world, bagpipes.• But this isn't the foothills of the Himalayas.• His advisor, Paul Krausman, took him to the foothills on the north side of Pusch Ridge.• The foothills of the Annulii march off to the distantpeaks that tower dramatically into the clouds.