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Mountain-Altai
(Encyclopedia)Mountain-Altai: see Altai Republic, Russia. ...Mountain-Badakhshan
(Encyclopedia)Mountain-Badakhshan: see Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan. ...mountain beaver
(Encyclopedia)mountain beaver, stout, short-limbed North American rodent, Aplodontia rufa, not closely related to the true beaver. Also called sewellel beaver after the Chinook word for a robe made from its pelts, ...Mountain Brook
(Encyclopedia)Mountain Brook, city (1990 pop. 19,810), Jefferson co., N central Ala.; inc. 1942. It is a residential suburb of Birmingham.mountain goat
(Encyclopedia)mountain goat: see Rocky Mountain goat. ...Mountain-Karabakh
(Encyclopedia)Mountain-Karabakh: see Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan. ...mountain laurel
(Encyclopedia)mountain laurel, evergreen shrub (Kalmia latifolia) of the family Ericaceae (heath family), closely related to the rhododendron and native to E North America. The state flower of Connecticut and Penns...mountain lion
(Encyclopedia)mountain lion: see puma.mountain sheep
(Encyclopedia)mountain sheep: see bighorn.Mountain View
(Encyclopedia)Mountain View, city (1990 pop. 67,460), Santa Clara co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1902. A steadily growing city, Mountain View is part of the Silicon Valley high-technology industrial comp...Browse by Subject
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