Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Located between mountains or mountain systems.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lying between mountains: as, intermontane soil.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Between mountains.
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- adjective Between
mountains .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The diversity of habitat types in the dry forest region includes scrub and desert, deciduous tropical thorn-scrub forest, deciduous ceiba forest, semi-evergreen lowland and premontane tall forest, and intermontane scrub.
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This ecoregion is a broad arid intermontane basin interrupted by hills and low mountains and dominated by grasslands and shrublands.
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Morocco's northern coast and interior are mountainous (Rif Mountains and Atlas mountains) with large areas of bordering plateaus, intermontane valleys, and rich coastal plains.
Morocco 2009
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Many mountain-fed, perennial streams occur and differentiate the intermontane valleys from the Northwestern Great Plains.
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Terrain: Northern coast and interior are mountainous with large areas of bordering plateaus, intermontane valleys, and rich coastal plains.
Morocco 2009
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Southern RockiesThe Southern Rockies are characterized by rugged, steep mountains, intermontane depressions and open meadows, and high-elevation plateaus composed of dissected, horizontally layered rocks.
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The broad, xeric intermontane Wyoming Basin (18) is punctuated by high hills and low mountains and dominated by grasslands and shrublands.
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The Snake River Plain is a broad intermontane valley.
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The Laramie Basin ecoregion is a wide intermontane valley, dominated by mixed-grass prairie.
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The Grassland Parks ecoregion, occurring primarily in Colorado, consists of high intermontane valleys with sufficient water availability to support grasslands and wet meadows.
jeffreydavidscott commented on the word intermontane
Hey, CIA... aren't ALL valleys "intermontane?"
July 15, 2011