mountainous terrain
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- noun
- /ˈmaʊntənəs tɛˈreɪn/
:
terreno montañoso
- The region's mountainous terrain, they explained, makes other possible routes far more costly.
- rugged mountainous terrain
- mountainous terrain and climate
Examples
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We traveled across mountainous terrain with a couple of weeks' worth of supplies on our backs.
Academic text (2007) -
Puerto Rico is among the more landslide-prone areas in the United States (Jibson 1987, 183) because of a combination of mountainous terrain and tropical climate.
Academic text (1993) -
The lack of infrastructure in the country is due to the rough, mountainous terrain.
Blog text (20) -
The coaster will use the mountainous terrain of the park and will be a first of its kind anywhere.
Blog text (29) -
The mountainous terrain makes El Salvador, despite its relatively small size, an area suitable for guerrilla war.
Academic text (1991) -
We headed down to the mountainous terrain to simulate a low-level reconnaissance and attack mission.
Blog text (27) -
A six-man team of scout snipers hiked through snowy mountainous terrain under heavy winds.
Blog text (7) -
In short, three main sources of soil erosion operate on Cebu: natural erosion as a result of the mountainous terrain and climate; erosion consequent to agriculture; and erosion caused by nonagricultural human activity.
Academic text (1994) -
We traveled across mountainous terrain with a couple of weeks' worth of supplies on our backs.
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Head south from Cape Town on M63 into the rugged, mountainous terrain of the backcountry.
Synonyms
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1.8
A long line of connected mountains that forms a high area
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3.2
An area of high, hilly land often with farms or villages
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6.8
A high area of land above low hills and below where trees stop growing
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A long line of high land with many peaks joined together
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A long line of high land with many connected peaks
A mountain range with jagged, rocky peaks
Antonyms
How Mountainous
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase's meaning is directly compositional: 'mountainous' means having many mountains and 'terrain' means a tract of land, so combined they clearly denote land with many mountains. This adjective+noun pattern is regular and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand the MWE.
Etymology
Mountainous terrain is a simple picture: mountainous means full of high mountains and terrain means 'land'. That's why the phrase means 'an area with many mountains'.