Definition of Caucasus Mountains

1. Noun. The mountain range in Caucasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea that forms part of the traditional border between Europe and Asia.

Exact synonyms: Caucasus
Group relationships: Caucasia, Caucasus
Generic synonyms: Chain, Chain Of Mountains, Mountain Chain, Mountain Range, Range, Range Of Mountains
Derivative terms: Caucasic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Caucasus Mountains

Catullus
Caty
Caucasia
Caucasian
Caucasian Albania
Caucasian Iberia
Caucasian language
Caucasian race
Caucasian walnut
Caucasian zelkova
Caucasians
Caucasic
Caucasiology
Caucasology
Caucasus
Caucasus Mountains (current term)
Cauchy
Cauchy-Schwarz inequality
Cauchy distribution
Cauchy distributions
Cauchy sequence
Cauchy sequences
Caudata
Caudine
Caudine Forks
Caulacanthus
Caulophyllum
Caulophyllum thalictrioides
Caulophyllum thalictroides
Cava

Literary usage of Caucasus Mountains

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Elements of Physical Geography: For the Use of Schools, Academies, and by Edwin James Houston (1894)
"The Caucasus Mountains bear peaks exceeding in elevation those of the Alps. They belong, however, more properly to the elevations of Asia. 127. ..."

2. Topical Outline of Geography by Harold Wellman Fairbanks (1921)
"THE Caucasus Mountains:—THE EAST AND WEST MOUNTAIN WALL FORMING A PART OF THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN ASIA AND EUROPE. ..."

3. Carpenter's New Geographical Reader: Europe by Frank George Carpenter (1922)
"There is a great deal of petroleum yet to be mined here in the Caucasus Mountains, in the Apsheron peninsula, and in some of the islands of the Caspian Sea. ..."

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