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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A series of mountain ridges alike in form, direction, and origin.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A range of mountains; specifically, in geology, the series of more or less parallel ridges formed over the area and border of a single anticlinal or synclinal mountain-fold considered as a unit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A series of
adjoining mountains, often in a line. - noun A series of lines of mountains.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a series of hills or mountains
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