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单词 alleghenian
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Alleghenianadj.

Brit. /aləˈɡeɪnɪən/, U.S. /ˌæləˈɡeɪniən/
Forms: 1700s– Alleganian, 1800s– Alleghanian, 1800s– Alleghenian.
Origin: From proper names, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper nameAllegheny , Allegany , -an suffix.
Etymology: < the name of the Allegheny Mountains (formerly also Allegany, Alleghany), running from Pennsylvania to Virginia in the eastern United States, forming part of the Appalachian mountain range + -an suffix (compare -ian suffix).The Allegheny mountains are in turn named after the Allegheny river, a tributary of the Ohio river, running through the states of New York and Pennsylvania.
1. Of, belonging to, or designating the Allegheny Mountains in the eastern United States; native to or inhabiting this region.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [adjective] > range > spec
Alpine?a1475
Pyrene?a1475
Riphaean1555
Pyrenean?1556
Pyrenee1590
hercynian1598
Alpic1611
Appalachian1672
Carpathian1673
Rhipaean1703
Alleghenian1740
Altaic1762
Altaian1780
Balkan1785
Uralian1801
Lepontine1802
Altai1824
Dinaric1833
Andean1845
Alpigene1847
Lepontian1857
Uralic1861
Himalayan1866
Cordilleran1891
Andine1900
Armorican1906
Variscan1906
1740 G. Whitefield Contin. Jrnl. after Arrival Georgia 19 May (1741) 48 [I] could not but think God would open a Door for preaching the Gospel among the Alleganian Indians.
1810 J. Robinson Savage xiii. 221 I would rather..encounter a file of your countrymen among the Alleganian mountains, than be stared in the face by words so tremendous, so horrible, as [etc.].
1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick iii. 16 One of those..mountaineers from the Alleganian Ridge in Virginia.
1898 Atlantic Monthly 82 494/1 Concerning the black-throated blue,..the Alleghanian bird has been discriminated..as a local race.
1901 C. T. Mohr Plant Life Alabama 71 Mountain holly..extends..on the lower of the western Alleghenian ranges to southeastern Kentucky.
1991 Vegetatio 94 163/2 The flora of the Alleghenian spruce-fir forest is more closely related to the southern than the northern Appalachians.
2008 D. L. Strayer Freshwater Mussel Ecol. iii. 29 The Erie Canal cut through the Alleghenian Divide in 1825, linking the waters of Lake Erie with those of the Mohawk River.
2. Geology. Designating a mountain-building episode of the Carboniferous period in North America in which the Allegheny and Appalachian mountain ranges were formed; of or relating to this episode.The Alleghenian episode was contemporaneous with the Variscan (Hercynian) orogeny in Europe.
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1957 H. P. Woodward in Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists 41 ii. 1440 For the folding described here, probably of the mid-Pennsylvanian age, the name Alleghany orogeny is..both geographically and chronologically descriptive.]
1965 Prof. Papers U.S. Geol. Surv. No. 525D. 1/1 The area was regionally dynamothermally metamorphosed in the Acadian (Devonian) and thermally re-metamorphosed in the Alleghenian (Permian) orogenies.
1982 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 90 232/2 These spaced foliations have traditionally been assigned an Acadian age; however they may be Alleghanian.
1995 Earth Oct. 8/3 The Ramapo Fault Zone..was active during the opening of the Iapetus Ocean, the Taconic and Alleghanian orogenies and the Mesozoic rifting.
2009 Jrnl. Struct. Geol. 31 1029/2 All strata involved in the Hudson Valley fold–thrust belt were deposited before both the Acadian and Alleghanian orogenies.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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