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Definitions

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Lying between mountains: as, intermontane soil.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Between mountains.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Between mountains.

Etymologies

  1. inter- +‎ montane (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “The diversity of habitat types in the dry forest region includes scrub and desert, deciduous tropical thorn-scrub forest, deciduous ceiba forest, semi-evergreen lowland and premontane tall forest, and intermontane scrub.”

    Biological diversity in Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena

  • “The broad, xeric intermontane Wyoming Basin (18) is punctuated by high hills and low mountains and dominated by grasslands and shrublands.”

    Ecoregions of Montana (EPA)

  • “The Laramie Basin ecoregion is a wide intermontane valley, dominated by mixed-grass prairie.”

    Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)

  • “Southern RockiesThe Southern Rockies are characterized by rugged, steep mountains, intermontane depressions and open meadows, and high-elevation plateaus composed of dissected, horizontally layered rocks.”

    Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)

  • “This ecoregion is a broad arid intermontane basin interrupted by hills and low mountains and dominated by grasslands and shrublands.”

    Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)

  • “The Snake River Plain is a broad intermontane valley.”

    Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)

  • “The Grassland Parks ecoregion, occurring primarily in Colorado, consists of high intermontane valleys with sufficient water availability to support grasslands and wet meadows.”

    Ecoregions of New Mexico (EPA)

  • “Terrain: Northern coast and interior are mountainous with large areas of bordering plateaus, intermontane valleys, and rich coastal plains.”

    Morocco

  • “Morocco's northern coast and interior are mountainous (Rif Mountains and Atlas mountains) with large areas of bordering plateaus, intermontane valleys, and rich coastal plains.”

    Morocco

  • “Many mountain-fed, perennial streams occur and differentiate the intermontane valleys from the Northwestern Great Plains.”

    Ecoregions of the United States-Level III (EPA)

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