Thesaurus: cordillera
A mountain ridge or chain.
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Definitions
- n. A mountain ridge or chain.
- A mountain ridge or chain. Note: Cordillera is sometimes applied, in geology, to the system of mountain chains near the border of a continent; thus, the western cordillera of North America in the United States includes the Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada, Coast and Cascade ranges.
- n:100 n. A mountain ridge or chain.