HyperDic: continental_divide

English > 1 sense of the expression continental divide:
NOUNlocationcontinental dividethe watershed of a continent (especially the watershed of North America formed by a series of mountain ridges extending from Alaska to Mexico)
English > continental divide: 1 sense > noun 1, location
MeaningThe watershed of a continent (especially the watershed of North America formed by a series of mountain ridges extending from Alaska to Mexico).
PartsGreat DivideThat part of the continental divide formed by the Rocky Mountains in the United States
RegionNorth AmericaA continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama
Broaderwatershed, water parting, divideA ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
Spanishcontinental divide, divisoria continental
Catalandivisòria continental

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