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Definition of Appalachian mountains
1. Noun. A mountain range in the eastern United States extending from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico; a historic barrier to early westward expansion of the United States.
Terms within: Appalachia, Alleghenies, Allegheny Mountains, Blue Ridge, Blue Ridge Mountains, Catskill Mountains, Catskills, Cumberland Mountains, Cumberland Plateau, Great Smoky Mountains, Green Mountains, Taconic Mountains
Group relationships: East, Eastern United States
Generic synonyms: Chain, Chain Of Mountains, Mountain Chain, Mountain Range, Range, Range Of Mountains
Lexicographical Neighbors of Appalachian Mountains
Literary usage of Appalachian mountains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1885)
"Pennsylvania before and after the Elevation of the appalachian mountains. ...
That the appalachian mountains came into being in this manner in the These ..."
2. Orations, Addresses and Speeches of Chauncey M. Depew by Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1910)
"PRESIDENT: Senate bill 5228, for the purchase of a national forest reserve in
the Southern appalachian mountains, to be known as the "National Appalachian ..."
3. An Introduction to Geology by William Berryman Scott (1897)
"Anticlinorium: section through the appalachian mountains. (Willis.) whole, either
anticlinal, rising up into a great compound arch, or synclinal, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The appalachian mountains ire a vast storehouse of mineral wealth. ... In the
appalachian mountains their aggregate thickness is 40000 feet, ..."
5. Physical Geography by Mary Somerville (1870)
"The Alleghanies; picturesque scenery of the appalachian mountains. § 6.
Gradual decrease of vegetation towards the Arctic region ; islands of the north-cast ..."
6. Maryland Geological Survey by Maryland Geological Survey (1913)
"Their study presents much difficulty because the strata are involved in the
intricate folding of the ancient appalachian mountains and are extensively ..."
7. Outline of the Geology of the Globe, and of the United States in Particular by Edward Hitchcock (1856)
"From thence two branches extend south-westerly, on each side of the great coal-field
of the appalachian mountains, and reaching even into Tennessee and ..."
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