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Mountain

mountain

1. Of or pertaining to a mountain or mountains; growing or living on a mountain; found on or peculiar to mountains; among mountains; as, a mountain torrent; mountain pines; mountain goats; mountain air; mountain howitzer.

2. Like a mountain; mountainous; vast; very great. The high, the mountain majesty of worth.

(Science: zoology) (Byron) Mountain anthelope, the goral.

(Science: botany) Mountain ash, a ground pigeon of jamaica, of the genus Geotrygon.


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