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CONTINENTAL DIVIDE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The watershed of a continent (especially the watershed of North America formed by a series of mountain ridges extending from Alaska to Mexico)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("continental divide" is a kind of...):
divide; water parting; watershed (a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems)
Meronyms (parts of "continental divide"):
Great Divide (that part of the continental divide formed by the Rocky Mountains in the United States)
Domain 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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