Meaning | The watershed of a continent (especially the watershed of North America formed by a series of mountain ridges extending from Alaska to Mexico). |
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Parts | Great Divide | That part of the continental divide formed by the Rocky Mountains in the United States |
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Region | North America | A continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama |
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Broader | watershed, water parting, divide | A ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems |
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Spanish | continental divide, divisoria continental |
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Catalan | divisòria continental |
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