MEANING
An extensive chain or system of mountain ranges.
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- high cordillera
- mountain cordillera
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The cordillera rose in layers behind the settlement.
Snow covered the high cordillera while the valley remained green.
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- cordillera
Usage notes
Primary category: environment. Forms: Singular cordillera; plural cordilleras. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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