Definition of mountain

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Mountain (n.) A range, chain, or group of such elevations; as, the White Mountains..

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Craggy :: Craggy (a.) Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as, the craggy side of a mountain..
Peakish :: Peakish (a.) Of or relating to a peak; or to peaks; belonging to a mountainous region.
Nymph :: Nymph (n.) A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters..
Ousel :: Ousel (n.) One of several species of European thrushes, especially the blackbird (Merula merula, or Turdus merula), and the mountain or ring ousel (Turdus torquatus)..
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
Brambling :: Brambling (n.) The European mountain finch (Fringilla montifringilla); -- called also bramble finch and bramble.
Cheviot :: Cheviot (n.) A valuable breed of mountain sheep in Scotland, which takes its name from the Cheviot hills..
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..
East :: East (n.) Formerly, the part of the United States east of the Alleghany Mountains, esp. the Eastern, or New England, States; now, commonly, the whole region east of the Mississippi River, esp. that which is north of Maryland and the Ohio River; -- usually with the definite article; as, the commerce of the East is not independent of the agriculture of the West..
Pyrenean :: Pyrenean (a.) Of or pertaining to the Pyrenees, a range of mountains separating France and Spain..
Geosynclinal :: Geosynclinal (n.) the downward bend or subsidence of the earth's crust, which allows of the gradual accumulation of sediment, and hence forms the first step in the making of a mountain range; -- opposed to geanticlinal..
Teledu :: Teledu (n.) An East Indian carnivore (Mydaus meliceps) allied to the badger, and noted for the very offensive odor that it emits, somewhat resembling that of a skunk. It is a native of the high mountains of Java and Sumatra, and has long, silky fur. Called also stinking badger, and stinkard..
Montigenous :: Montigenous (a.) Produced on a mountain.
Artemisia :: Artemisia (n.) A genus of plants including the plants called mugwort, southernwood, and wormwood. Of these A. absinthium, or common wormwood, is well known, and A. tridentata is the sage brush of the Rocky Mountain region..
Mountainous :: Mountainous (a.) Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss..
Chain :: Chain (n.) A series of things linked together; or a series of things connected and following each other in succession; as, a chain of mountains; a chain of events or ideas..
Farraginous :: Farraginous (a.) Formed of various materials; mixed; as, a farraginous mountain..
Hercynian :: Hercynian (a.) Of or pertaining to an extensive forest in Germany, of which there are still portions in Swabia and the Hartz mountains..
Hoolock :: Hoolock (n.) A small black gibbon (Hylobates hoolock), found in the mountains of Assam..
Jurassic :: "Jurassic (a.) Of the age of the middle Mesozoic, including, as divided in England and Europe, the Lias, Oolite, and Wealden; -- named from certain rocks of the Jura mountains..
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