Definition of mountain

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Mountain (a.) Of or pertaining to a mountain or mountains; growing or living on a mountain; found on or peculiar to mountains; among mountains; as, a mountain torrent; mountain pines; mountain goats; mountain air; mountain howitzer..

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Bitterroot :: Bitterroot (n.) A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc. It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains and river. The Indians call both the plant and the river Spaet'lum..
Sierra :: Sierra (n.) A ridge of mountain and craggy rocks, with a serrated or irregular outline; as, the Sierra Nevada..
Roebuck :: Roebuck (n.) A small European and Asiatic deer (Capreolus capraea) having erect, cylindrical, branched antlers, forked at the summit. This, the smallest European deer, is very nimble and graceful. It always prefers a mountainous country, or high grounds..
Cowberry :: Cowberry (n.) A species of Vaccinium (V. Vitis-idaea), which bears acid red berries which are sometimes used in cookery; -- locally called mountain cranberry..
Gain :: Gain (n.) To reach; to attain to; to arrive at; as, to gain the top of a mountain; to gain a good harbor..
Granite State :: Granite State () New Hampshire; -- a nickname alluding to its mountains, which are chiefly of granite..
Undivided :: Undivided (a.) Not divided; not separated or disunited; unbroken; whole; continuous; as, plains undivided by rivers or mountains..
Hoolock :: Hoolock (n.) A small black gibbon (Hylobates hoolock), found in the mountains of Assam..
Charr :: Charr (n.) One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus, allied to the spotted trout and salmon, inhabiting deep lakes in mountainous regions in Europe. In the United States, the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is sometimes called a char..
Mountain :: Mountain (n.) A mountainlike mass; something of great bulk.
Vast :: Vast (superl.) Of great extent; very spacious or large; also, huge in bulk; immense; enormous; as, the vast ocean; vast mountains; the vast empire of Russia..
Arcadia :: Arcadia (n.) A mountainous and picturesque district of Greece, in the heart of the Peloponnesus, whose people were distinguished for contentment and rural happiness..
Mountain :: Mountain (n.) A range, chain, or group of such elevations; as, the White Mountains..
Farraginous :: Farraginous (a.) Formed of various materials; mixed; as, a farraginous mountain..
Prairie :: Prairie (n.) An extensive tract of level or rolling land, destitute of trees, covered with coarse grass, and usually characterized by a deep, fertile soil. They abound throughout the Mississippi valley, between the Alleghanies and the Rocky mountains..
Mountainousness :: Mountainousness (n.) The state or quality of being mountainous.
Cismontane :: Cismontane (a.) On this side of the mountains. See under Ultramontane.
Slide :: Slide (n.) The descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountain side; as, a land slide, or a snow slide; also, the track of bare rock left by a land slide..
Caucasian :: Caucasian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas..
Pyrenean :: Pyrenean (a.) Of or pertaining to the Pyrenees, a range of mountains separating France and Spain..
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