Andes
['ændi:z]
Definition
(noun.) a mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast.
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Examples
- On the heights of the Andes he found marine shell foss ils at a height of fourteen thousand feet above sea-level. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Then Adams crossed the Andes, and started a market-report bureau in Buenos Ayres. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I would have made a pilgrimage to the highest peak of the Andes, could I, when there, have precipitated him to their base. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- On the South American continent there were at least forty species of mice, those east of the Andes being distinct from those on the west coast. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
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