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单词 continental divide
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continental divide
continental divide n. a divide separating two river systems of a continent; spec. the divide in North America separating rivers flowing into the Atlantic from those flowing into the Pacific.
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the world > the earth > region of the earth > zone or belt > [noun] > biogeographical zone > boundary
Wallace line1868
continental divide1869
timberline1896
tree-limit1934
1869 W. J. Palmer Surv. across Continent 171 The great Continental Divide at Arkansas Pass.
1890 Trans. Royal Soc. Canada 1889 7 ii. 130 They..reached the continental ‘divide’ on February 25th.
1890 Cent. Mag. Mar. 771/1 In central Colorado the ‘Continental Divide’ is a wilderness of desolate peaks.
1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. i. 65 On the eastern side of the Continental Divide in Colorado.
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