Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to a cordillera.
- adjective Of or relating to an ice sheet that covered most of northwestern North America west of the Rocky Mountains during the Pleistocene Epoch and that melted between 15,000 and 10,000 years ago.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or situated in the Cordilleras.
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Examples
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The Park lies in the northern section of the taiga cordilleran physiographic region; a diverse area of mountain ranges, rolling hills, high plateaus, broad depressions and incised valleys.
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These include green-tailed and spotted towhees, orange-crowned warblers, dusky flycatchers, and chipping sparrows in the upland shrubs, yellow and yellowrumped warblers, black-capped and mountain chickadees, brown creepers, song and fox sparrows, and cordilleran flycatchers in the riparian habitat.
TalkLeft 2010
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The former western flycatcher is now two species, the Pacific-slope and cordilleran flycatchers, which pretty much have to be identified by geography.
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper By Joe Eaton 2008
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By whatever name, Santa Fe is nestled in the foothills of a cordilleran spur called the Sangre de Cristos.
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