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Continental Divide

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Noun

1. continental divide

the watershed of a continent (especially the watershed of North America formed by a series of mountain ridges extending from Alaska to Mexico)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Continental Divide

see synonyms of continental divide
noun
the watershed of a continent, esp (often caps.) the principal watershed of North America, formed by the Rocky Mountains

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Continental Divide

see synonyms of continental divide
ridge of the Rocky Mountains forming a North American watershed that separates rivers flowing in an easterly direction from those flowing in a westerly direction

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Continental Divide

see synonyms of continental divide
The hydrographic line extending from Alaska to Mexico that divides the parts of North America whose waters drain to the Pacific Ocean from those parts that drain to the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. The portion of it running along the crest of the Rocky Mountains is often called the Great Divide.
n.
An extensive stretch of high ground from each side of which the river systems of a continent flow in opposite directions.

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