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Blue Mountains definition

Blue Mountains

heavily forested mountain range of NE Oreg. & SE Wash.: highest peak, 9,105 ft (2,775 m)

Etymology: from their bluish appearance at a distance

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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