Mountaineer - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: mountaineerMountaineer
An inhabitant of a mountain one who lives among mountains...
Mountainous
Full of or containing mountains as the mountainous country of the Swiss...
mountaineering
Climbing mountains as a sport...
Mountainer
A mountaineer...
Mountainousness
The state or quality of being mountainous...
Mountain specter
An optical phenomenon sometimes seen on the summit of mountains as on the Brocken when the observer is between the sun and a mass of cloud The figures of the observer and surrounding objects are seen projected on the cloud greatly enlarged and often encircled by rainbow colors...
Bitterroot
A plant Lewisia rediviva allied to the purslane but with fleshy farinaceous roots growing in the mountains of Idaho Montana etc It gives the name to the Bitter Root mountains and river The Indians call both the plant and the river Spaeligtlum...
Brocken specter
A mountain specter which see esp that observed on the Brocken in the Harz Mountains...
Butte
A detached low mountain or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region...
Laramie group
An extensive series of strata principally developed in the Rocky Mountain region as in the Laramie Mountains and formerly supposed to be of the Tertiary age but now generally regarded as Cretaceous or of intermediate and transitional character It contains beds of lignite often valuable for coal and is hence also called the lignitic group See Chart of Geology...
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