Definition of Kuenlun mountains

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


Lexicographical Neighbors of Kuenlun Mountains

Kubanskaya
Kubla Khan
Kublai Kaan
Kublai Khan
Kubrick
Kubrickian
Kubrickologist
Kubrickologists
Kubrickology
Kucha
Kuchean
Kuchean dialect
Kuching
Kuchipudi
Kuenlun
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
Kuhnian

Literary usage of Kuenlun mountains

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

1. The Jummoo and Kashmir Territories: A Geographical Account by Frederic Drew (1875)
"The kuenlun mountains make a continuous ridge, with some higher peaks covered with permanent consolidated •snow-beds; these tower 6000 or 7000 feet above ..."

2. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on by Susie Carson Rijnhart (1904)
"Crossing the kuenlun mountains—" Buddha's Cauldron "—Marshes and Sand-hills—Dead Yak Strew the Trail—Ford of the Shuga Gol—Our Guides Desert Us—Snow Storm ..."

3. The Heart of a Continent: A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, Across the by Sir Francis Edward Younghusband (1897)
"THE kuenlun mountains. shows that the main range of the kuenlun mountains must recede considerably from here. ..."

4. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India by Geological Survey of India (1883)
"... penetrating far between the mountain spurs to the very base of the Kuenlun Mountains. At this stage there was no watershed between the Indian and ..."

5. Teaching the New Geography: A Manual for Use with the Frye-Atwood by Wallace Walter Atwood, Helen Goss Thomas (1921)
"... northern margin of the plateau, he crossed the kuenlun mountains and the ... the Hindu Kush, the Himalayas, the Karakoram, and the kuenlun mountains. ..."

6. Guyot's New Intermediate Geography by Arnold Guyot (1875)
"... while the plateaus of eastern Turkestan and Mongolia, i the kuenlun mountains, are only from two thousand to five thousand fert above the sea. Slopes. ..."

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