Definition of Kuenlun

1. Noun. A mountain range in western China that extends eastward from the Indian border for 1000 miles.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Kuenlun

Kuban
Kubanskaya
Kubla Khan
Kublai Kaan
Kublai Khan
Kubrick
Kubrickian
Kubrickologist
Kubrickologists
Kubrickology
Kucha
Kuchean
Kuchean dialect
Kuching
Kuchipudi
Kuenlun (current term)
Kuenlun Mountains
Kufic
Kufs
Kufs disease
Kugel's anastomotic artery
Kuhn
Kuhne
Kuhne's fibre
Kuhne's methylene blue
Kuhne's phenomenon
Kuhne's plate
Kuhne's spindle

Literary usage of Kuenlun

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

1. Recreations in Physical Geography, Or, The Earth as it is by Rosina Maria Zornlin (1840)
"Kuenlun MOUNTAINS.—ALTAI MOUNTAINS. ... or Gobi, until it unites with the mountains of China, to which the elevated Kuenlun also extends. ..."

2. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on by Susie Carson Rijnhart (1901)
"Crossing the Kuenlun Mountains—"Buddha's Cauldron"—Marshes and ... The Kuenlun mountain range stretches across Tibet from west to east at about thirty-six ..."

3. Researches Into the Physical History of Mankind by James Cowles Prichard (1844)
"Kuen lun or Kuenlun must not be confounded with the mountain Kuen lun, ... M. Remusat found in it a passage describing the " Blacks of Kuenlun. ..."

4. The Jummoo and Kashmir Territories: A Geographical Account by Frederic Drew (1875)
"These are part of the foremost ridge of the Kuenlun; it is a bold dark line some 4000 feet above the plain; behind it is the lofty snowy range that reaches ..."

5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1883)
"The Karakoram Pass also lies on an axis of elevation further to the north and intermediate between the Mustagh and Kuenlun. 2. Mustagh. ..."

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