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intermontane en · ADJ

Etymology

From inter- + montane.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Between mountains.
    • The distinct types of relief include regions of high mountains, low hills, dissected plateaus, intermontane valleys, and coastal swamps. 1915, Albert Gardner Robinson, Cuba, Old and New:
    • Sediment infilling, bathtub-like, of dammed intermontane basins formed flat high plains at each step. 2001 November 23, Paul Tapponnier et al., “Oblique Stepwise Rise and Growth of the Tibet Plateau”, in Science, volume 294, number 5547, →DOI, pages 1671–1677:
    • Later, the discoveries of rich "pocket" deposits in the Red Butte district lifted the intermontane hill country temporarily to the high plane of a bonanza field. 1916, Francis Lynde, The Taming of Red Butte Western: