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Definition of Death valley
1. Noun. A desert area that is part of the Mojave Desert in eastern California and southwestern Nevada; contains the lowest point in North America.
Group relationships: Ca, Calif., California, Golden State, Battle Born State, Nevada, Nv, Sagebrush State, Silver State, Mohave, Mohave Desert, Mojave, Mojave Desert
Definition of Death valley
1. Proper noun. A valley in California and Nevada, remarkable for being the lowest-elevated place in North America. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Death Valley
Literary usage of Death valley
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Geography (1915)
"death valley has often been said to contain carbonic acid gas and by this ...
Like a hundred other depressions in the Great Basin, death valley owes its ..."
2. Review of Reviews and World's Work by Albert Shaw (1906)
"When one stands in Colorado Springs, Pike's Peak towers a little over 7000 feet
above one, but from death valley one looks up 11000 feet to the snows on ..."
3. The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries (1913)
"NOTES BY THE WAY SURVIVORS OF death valley Survivors of the pioneer band of "Death
Valley Argonauts" ... The party was the first to explore death valley. ..."
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