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Definition of Mount Orizaba
1. Noun. An extinct volcano in southern Mexico between Mexico City and Veracruz; the highest peak in Mexico (18,695 feet).
Group relationships: Mexico, United Mexican States
Generic synonyms: Volcano
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mount Orizaba
Literary usage of Mount Orizaba
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor by David Starr Jordan (1922)
"... Striking contrasts Mount Orizaba Exotic lands far. Those who feel themselves
cured leave some visible sign of their gratitude. ..."
2. List of North American Land Mammals in the United States National Museum, 1911 by Gerrit Smith Miller (1912)
"Mount Orizaba, State of Puebla, Mexico. HANGE.—Eastern Puebla and to the north
and west, grading into the subspecies ..."
3. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1907)
"RID« WAY, Auk, xi, 1894, 145, part (Mount Orizaba, Puebla; ... Cox, Auk, xii,
1895, 359 (Mount Orizaba, 14.000 ft, i.—CHAPMAN, Bull. Am. Mus. N. . ..."
4. The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor by David Starr Jordan (1922)
"... Striking contrasts Mount Orizaba Exotic lands far. Those who feel themselves
cured leave some visible sign of their gratitude. ..."
5. List of North American Land Mammals in the United States National Museum, 1911 by Gerrit Smith Miller (1912)
"Mount Orizaba, State of Puebla, Mexico. HANGE.—Eastern Puebla and to the north
and west, grading into the subspecies ..."
6. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1907)
"RID« WAY, Auk, xi, 1894, 145, part (Mount Orizaba, Puebla; ... Cox, Auk, xii,
1895, 359 (Mount Orizaba, 14.000 ft, i.—CHAPMAN, Bull. Am. Mus. N. . ..."
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