Definition of "mountain range" [mountain range]

• A series of mountain ridges alike in form, direction, and origin. (noun)

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• "Pot cultivation is much more common in the Sierra Madre mountain range in northern Sonora, Durango and Sinaloa states."
• "They are the Nusairiyeh or Nosairi, sometimes also known as the Alawites after the mountain range in which they live."
• "The view was suddenly hugean entire mountain range stretched around them, the mag-lev line cutting through it like a seam of silver."