Definition of mountain

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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..

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Pandour :: Pandour (n.) One of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army; -- so called from Pandur, a principal town in the region from which they originally came..
Farraginous :: Farraginous (a.) Formed of various materials; mixed; as, a farraginous mountain..
Argali :: Argali (n.) A species of wild sheep (Ovis ammon, or O. argali), remarkable for its large horns. It inhabits the mountains of Siberia and central Asia..
Mountainous :: Mountainous (a.) Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap..
Chartreuse :: Chartreuse (n.) A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France..
Snow-capped :: Snow-capped (a.) Having the top capped or covered with snow; as, snow-capped mountains..
Sorbin :: Sorbin (n.) An unfermentable sugar, isomeric with glucose, found in the ripe berries of the rowan tree, or sorb, and extracted as a sweet white crystalline substance; -- called also mountain-ash sugar..
Lammergeier :: Lammergeier (n.) A very large vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), which inhabits the mountains of Southern Europe, Asia, and Northern Africa. When full-grown it is nine or ten feet in extent of wings. It is brownish black above, with the under parts and neck rusty yellow; the forehead and crown white; the sides of the head and beard black. It feeds partly on carrion and partly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them
Aryan :: Aryan (n.) One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo Koosh and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindoo, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic..
Jaal Goat :: "Jaal goat () A species of wild goat (Capra Nubiana) found in the mountains of Abyssinia, Upper Egypt, and Arabia; -- called also beden, and jaela..
Brambling :: Brambling (n.) The European mountain finch (Fringilla montifringilla); -- called also bramble finch and bramble.
Chalet :: Chalet (n.) A herdsman's hut in the mountains of Switzerland.
Mountaineer :: Mountaineer (n.) A rude, fierce person..
Orography :: Orography (n.) That branch of science which treats of mountains and mountain systems; orology; as, the orography of Western Europe..
Poly-mountain :: Poly-mountain (n.) The closely related Teucrium montanum, formerly called Polium montanum, a plant of Southern Europe..
Rocky :: Rocky (a.) Full of, or abounding in, rocks; consisting of rocks; as, a rocky mountain; a rocky shore..
Malma :: Malma (n.) A spotted trout (Salvelinus malma), inhabiting Northern America, west of the Rocky Mountains; -- called also Dolly Varden trout, bull trout, red-spotted trout, and golet..
Epizootic :: Epizootic (a.) Containing fossil remains; -- said of rocks, formations, mountains, and the like..
Avalanche :: Avalanche (n.) A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice..
Mountainous :: Mountainous (a.) Inhabiting mountains.
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