mountainous

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He did so, and beheld the ocean surrounding the earth, and the earth seemed like a mountainous island.

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  1. adjective Having many mountains.
  2. adjective Resembling a mountain in size; huge: mountainous waves.

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  • A known Taliban commander in the region, Mullah Ismail, was killed during the clash, which took place in a mountainous area, Zazai said. —  theleafchronicle.com - Local News
  • The plane, which went missing Saturday, was found in a mountainous area of Cotopaxi province in southern Ecuador, said Diego Valencia, a Red Cross official who led the recovery operations. —  Turkish Press
  • Rescuers have made an appeal for thousands of tents to house people in the mountainous area where tens of thousands of homes crumbled.
  • But no Pedometrician will ever make a fortune in a mountainous island, like Great Britain, where pedestrianism is indigenous to the soil. —  Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
  • The northern and north-eastern districts of the province are mountainous, and the central and southern form part of the vast and elevated plateau of Old Castile. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
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  1. Formerly also mountanous; from Old French montaigneux, French montagneux = Spanish montañoso = Portuguese montanhoso = Italian montagnoso, from Late Latin montaniosus, mountainous, from Latin montana, neuter plural, mountainous regions: see mountain.
 

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