Cismontane: alternatives and connections

To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.

Along or by the side; side by side with; -- often with of; as, bring the boat alongside; alongside of him; alongside of the tree.

A very high mountain. Specifically, in the plural, the highest chain of mountains in Europe, containing the lofty mountains of Switzer…

A reddish glow on mountains near sunrise or sunset.

Pertaining to the Alps, or other high mountains; as, Alpestrine diseases, etc.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Apennines, a chain of mountains extending through Italy.

Of or pertaining to a chain of mountains in the United States, commonly called the Allegheny mountains.

Of or pertaining to sandstone; as, arenilitic mountains.

A species of wild sheep (Ovis ammon, or O. argali), remarkable for its large horns. It inhabits the mountains of Siberia and central A…

A genus of plants; also, the most important species (Arnica montana), native of the mountains of Europe, used in medicine as a narcoti…

One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hind…

On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a…

The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which form…

A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc…

The black-tailed deer (Cervus / Cariacus Columbianus) of California and Oregon; also, the mule deer of the Rocky Mountains. See Mule d…

The root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta), found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farina…

Of or pertaining to a range of mountains in Austro-Hungary, called the Carpathians, which partially inclose Hungary on the north, east…

a series of hills or mountains; "the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range"