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/kˌɑntənˈɛntəl dɪvˈaɪd/ Listen

Continental divide

noun

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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"Continental divide" Quotes from Famous Books

... to boast) nearly two thousand souls, not counting Mexicans and Navajos. It lay in the hot hollows between pinyon-spotted hills, but within sight spread the grassy slopes of the secondary mountains over whose tops the snow-lined peaks of the Continental Divide ...

— They of the High Trails • Hamlin Garland

Words linked to "Continental divide" : watershed, divide, water parting, Great Divide, North America