intermontane
English
Etymology
inter- + montane
Adjective
intermontane (not comparable)
- Between mountains.
- 1915, Albert Gardner Robinson, Cuba, Old and New:
- The distinct types of relief include regions of high mountains, low hills, dissected plateaus, intermontane valleys, and coastal swamps.
- 1916, Francis Lynde, The Taming of Red Butte Western:
- Later, the discoveries of rich "pocket" deposits in the Red Butte district lifted the intermontane hill country temporarily to the high plane of a bonanza field.
- 2001 November 23, Paul Tapponnier et al., “Oblique Stepwise Rise and Growth of the Tibet Plateau”, in Science, volume 294, number 5547, DOI: , pages 1671-1677:
- Sediment infilling, bathtub-like, of dammed intermontane basins formed flat high plains at each step.
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Italian
Adjective
intermontane f
- feminine plural of intermontano