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  • proper noun A dormant volcano on Tenerife. It is the highest mountain in Spain.

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Examples

  • Furious Martin, an independent financial advisor, called Teide but they insisted they just hadn't booked the courses yet.

    The Sunday Mail - Home 2009

  • But when the party's flight times changed and Martin called Teide to rearrange the golf, he started to get suspicious.

    The Sunday Mail - Home 2009

  • And it was all shot on the Spanish island of Tenerife, atop Mount Teide, the world's third-tallest volcano.

    Gods, monsters revisited in 'Clash of the Titans' 2010

  • Just getting the rig up to the location was an incredible undertaking, as filming in a national park in Tenerife – Teide, the third tallest volcano in the world – meant strict guidelines had to be followed.

    41 High Resolution Photos from Clash of the Titans | /Film 2010

  • The time-lapse footage was captured between April 4th and 11th, 2011, from atop El Teide, Spain's highest mountain.

    Time-Lapse Milky Way Video Captures Nature From A Unique Perspective (HD VIDEO) 2011

  • Fuerteventura is supposed to be the most beautiful island of them all, although Tenerife with the Teide mountain is also worth visiting .. happyforyou |

    calling in favours 2007

  • The species endemic to the mountain include its two most representative species, sticky broom Adenocarpus viscosus and the widespread Teide white broom Spartocytisus supranubius, also Teide violet Viola cheiranthifolia which grows up to the summit, Teide edelweiss Gnaphalium teydeum, dwarf bugloss Echium auberianum, the thistle Stemmacantha cynaroides and the Teide catmint Nepeta teydia var. albiflora.

    Teide National Park, Spain 2008

  • Teide is the highest mountain in Spain, an impressive stratovolcano in the center of the island of Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands, a chain formed like the Hawaiian Islands by the passing of the under-lying lithospheric plate across a magma plume.

    Teide National Park, Spain 2008

  • Of the existing 23 World Heritage volcanic sites, it is most comparable with the oceanic serial island shield volcanos of Hawaii and the Galapagos, both of which formed over a static hot spot and have as many exceptional volcanic features as Teide though the large Galapagos islands group is much richer in endemic plants.

    Teide National Park, Spain 2008

  • Other Canary Island endemics are shrubby scabious Pterocephalus lasiospermus, Teide daisy Argynanthemum teneriffae, red bugloss Echium wildpretti, flixweed Descurainia bourgeauana and D. lemsii, Canary Island wallflower Erisimon scoparius and Canary Island wall lettuce Tolpis webbii.

    Teide National Park, Spain 2008

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