ROCKY MOUNTAINS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rocky Mountains mean? 

• ROCKY MOUNTAINS (noun)
  The noun ROCKY MOUNTAINS has 1 sense:

1. the chief mountain range of western North America; extends from British Columbia to northern New Mexico; forms the continental divide

  Familiarity information: ROCKY MOUNTAINS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROCKY MOUNTAINS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The chief mountain range of western North America; extends from British Columbia to northern New Mexico; forms the continental divide

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Rockies; Rocky Mountains

Instance hypernyms:

chain; chain of mountains; mountain chain; mountain range; range; range of mountains (a series of hills or mountains)

Meronyms (parts of "Rocky Mountains"):

Mount Elbert (the highest peak in the Rocky Mountains in central Colorado (14,431 feet high))

Pike's Peak (a mountain peak in the Rockies in central Colorado (14,109 feet high))

San Juan Mountains (a mountain range in southwestern Colorado that is part of the Rocky Mountains)

Selkirk Mountains (a range of the Rocky Mountains in southeastern British Columbia)

Wheeler Peak (a mountain peak in northeastern New Mexico in the Rocky Mountains)

Holonyms ("Rocky Mountains" is a part of...):

North America (a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama)

 Context examples 

A state in the Rocky Mountains of western United States.

(Colorado, NCI Thesaurus)

A state in the northern Rocky Mountains of western United States.

(Idaho, NCI Thesaurus)

University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder) scientists working at Niwot Ridge in Colorado's Rocky Mountains studied 15 years of snowmelt and atmospheric CO2 data to determine the effects of changes in snowmelt periods.

(Earlier snowmelt decreases streamflow, reduces forests' ability to regulate atmospheric carbon dioxide, NSF)