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Continental divide

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An unincorporated community in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States.
  2. 2
    A continental divide in the Americas to the west of which water drains into the Pacific Ocean, and to the east of which it flows variously into the Atlantic or Arctic Ocean.
Noun
  1. 1
    A line of elevated terrain that divides a watershed or a continent, so that water flowing on either side eventually travels to separate bodies of water.
  2. 2
    the watershed of a continent (especially the watershed of North America formed by a series of mountain ridges extending from Alaska to Mexico) wordnet

Etymology

Named after a continental divide.

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