Apennines

[ ap-uh-nahynz ]

/ ˈæp əˌnaɪnz /

noun (used with a plural verb)

a mountain range in Italy, extending across the length of the entire peninsula from NW to SW. Highest peak, Monte Corno, 9585 feet (2922 meters).

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Examples from the Web for apennines

The Italian election was a farrago of farce and consequence that reaches far beyond the Alps and the Apennines.
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It lacks all that makes the skirts of Alps and Apennines sublime.
New Italian sketches|John Addington Symonds
You may be sure every smuggler in the Apennines will do for a man who was in the Savigno revolt what he will not do for us.
The Gadfly|E. L. Voynich
The valleys of the Pyrenees, the Alps, and the Apennines, are cumbered with enormous chaotic heaps of fallen rock-masses.
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The Romans met bitter opposition from the mountain tribes when trying to open up the northern passes of the Apennines.
Influences of Geographic Environment|Ellen Churchill Semple
We found a great deal of snow in the Apennines, and once more got into complete winter.
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British Dictionary definitions for apennines

Apennines

/ (ˈæpəˌnaɪnz) /

pl n

a mountain range in Italy, extending over 1250 km (800 miles) from the northwest to the southernmost tip of the peninsula. Highest peak: Monte Corno, 2912 m (9554 ft)

a mountain range lying in the N quadrants of the moon, extending over 950 km along the SE border of the Mare Imbrium and rising to 6200 m

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