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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A mountain system of eastern North America extending about 2,574 km (1,600 mi) southwest from southeast Canada to central Alabama. Most of the range consists of a long band of valleys and ridges bordered on the coastal side by the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Piedmont, and on the inland side by the Allegheny Mountains, Cumberland Mountains, and the Appalachian Plateau, a dissected upland region that stretches to the interior plains. The northern Appalachians include the Green Mountains, White Mountains, and Taconic Mountains of New England.
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- 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
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Examples
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Historically, the Appalachian Mountains were a barrier to early western expansion.
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For example, the Appalachian Mountains are the source of hundreds of streams which flow east, west and south, and pass through many states.
Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory
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The Appalachian Mountains should be the western limits of the new nation.
Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground Constance Lindsay Skinner 1908
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'And so,' he says to Darden, 'and so my little maid that I brought for trophy out of the Appalachian Mountains is a woman grown?
Audrey Mary Johnston 1903
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West of the Appalachian Mountains are the Appalachian Plateaus.
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She added: "We're certain that all of NRDC's members recognize that the Appalachian Mountains are a diverse, ecological biogem with remarkable wildlife and natural resources that must be protected from destructive mountaintop coal mining.
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The school is an economic engine and cultural hub for much of central Pennsylvania, a sparsely populated region of long valleys sloping away from the Appalachian Mountains.
A Hometown Torn by Scandal Kris Maher 2011
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The Appalachian Mountains deserve it, the waters deserve it, and the people deserve it.
Jeff Biggers: Mountaintop Removal Is a National Problem: VA Leader Kathy Selvage on Next Steps for Anti-MTR Movement Jeff Biggers 2011
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The Appalachian Mountains deserve it, the waters deserve it, and the people deserve it.
Jeff Biggers: Mountaintop Removal Is a National Problem: VA Leader Kathy Selvage on Next Steps for Anti-MTR Movement Jeff Biggers 2011
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"It ain't right doing this to our community," says Delmer Clark, a 70-year-old retired coal miner in Eastern Kentucky's Appalachian Mountains, in the no-stoplight town of Holmes Mill.
Postal Service Eyes Closing Thousands of Post Offices Jennifer Levitz 2011
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