ppl. a. [UP- 6 b.] Situated or lying on elevated ground; upland.

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1877.  Scribner’s Mag., Aug., 479/2. The favourite haunt of the wild strawberry is an up-lying meadow.

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1884.  Nature, 25 Sept., 530/1. In up-lying situations,… fluxion-structures are seldom detected.

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