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Definition of Cascade range
1. Noun. A mountain range in the northwestern United States extending through Washington and Oregon and northern California; a part of the Coast Range.
Group relationships: Northwest, Northwestern United States, Coast Mountains, Coast Range
Terms within: Mount Saint Helens, Mount St. Helens, Mt. St. Helens, Adams, Mount Adams, Mount Ranier, Mount Tacoma, Mt. Ranier, Ranier
Generic synonyms: Chain, Chain Of Mountains, Mountain Chain, Mountain Range, Range, Range Of Mountains
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cascade Range
Literary usage of Cascade range
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1915)
"THE cascade range The cascade range is essentially a volcanic range stretching from
... The later foundations of the cascade range were laid in the Oregon ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The Okanagan joins it about 70 miles south of the boundary line and from here
the coarse of the Columbia is southerly, parallel with the cascade range for ..."
3. North America by Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, Alfred Richard Cecil Selwyn (1883)
"Parts of it are known respectively as the cascade range, the Sierra Nevada, ...
The cascade range. The northern part of the eastern and principal range, ..."
4. Guidebook of the Western United States by Joseph Silas Diller (1916)
"A. TABLE ROCK, AT ENTRANCE TO ROGUE RIVER VALLEY, OREG. A lava flow from the
cascade range caps the softer ..."
5. Vancouver Island and British Columbia: Their History, Resources and Prospects by Matthew Macfie (1865)
"Scenery in the Passage from Victoria to Fraser River—cascade range— New
Westminster—Imports—Shipping Returns—Customs Revenue— Rates of Duties ..."
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