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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Acroceraunian :: Acroceraunian (a.) Of or pertaining to the high mountain range of thunder-smitten peaks (now Kimara), between Epirus and Macedonia..
Ranz Des Vaches :: Ranz des vaches () The name for numerous simple, but very irregular, melodies of the Swiss mountaineers, blown on a long tube called the Alpine horn, and sometimes sung..
Crest :: Crest (n.) The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.
Granitic :: Granitic (a.) Consisting of granite; as, granitic mountains..
Breadroot :: Breadroot (n.) The root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta), found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farinaceous matter, affording sweet and palatable food..
Laramie Group :: Laramie group () An extensive series of strata, principally developed in the Rocky Mountain region, as in the Laramie Mountains, and formerly supposed to be of the Tertiary age, but now generally regarded as Cretaceous, or of intermediate and transitional character. It contains beds of lignite, often valuable for coal, and is hence also called the lignitic group. See Chart of Geology..
Highland :: Highland (n.) Elevated or mountainous land; (often in the pl.) an elevated region or country; as, the Highlands of Scotland..
Mountain :: Mountain (n.) A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land; earth and rock forming an isolated peak or a ridge; an eminence higher than a hill; a mount..
Ghaut :: Ghaut (n.) A range of mountains.
Echo :: Echo (n.) A wood or mountain nymph, regarded as repeating, and causing the reverberation of them..
Impassable :: Impassable (a.) Incapable of being passed; not admitting a passage; as, an impassable road, mountain, or gulf..
Ultramontane :: Ultramontane (n.) One who resides beyond the mountains, especially beyond the Alps; a foreigner..
Ural :: Ural (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, the Urals, a mountain range between Europe and Asia..
West :: West (n.) Formerly, that part of the United States west of the Alleghany mountains; now, commonly, the whole region west of the Mississippi river; esp., that part which is north of the Indian Territory, New Mexico, etc. Usually with the definite article..
Chalet :: Chalet (n.) A herdsman's hut in the mountains of Switzerland.
Poly-mountain :: Poly-mountain (n.) The closely related Teucrium montanum, formerly called Polium montanum, a plant of Southern Europe..
Height :: Height (n.) That which is elevated; an eminence; a hill or mountain; as, Alpine heights..
Cove :: Cove (n.) A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain..
Appalachian :: Appalachian (a.) Of or pertaining to a chain of mountains in the United States, commonly called the Allegheny mountains..
Tunnel :: Tunnel (v. t.) To make an opening, or a passageway, through or under; as, to tunnel a mountain; to tunnel a river..
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