mountain climbing
mountaineering | the activity of climbing a mountain |
Chinese checkers
Chinese chequers | a board game in which each player tries to move a set of marbles through a set of holes from one point of a six-pointed star to the opposite point |
| Kennesaw Mountain | battle of the American Civil War (), Union forces under William Tecumseh Sherman were repulsed by Confederate troops under Joseph Eggleston Johnston |
| Chinese Revolution | the republican revolution against the Manchu dynasty in China, - |
Rocky Mountain jay
Perisoreus canadensis capitalis | a Canada jay with a white head, widely distributed from Montana to Arizona |
mountain skink
Eumeces callicephalus | frequents oak and pine habitats in rocky mountainous areas of United States southwest and Mexico |
mountain devil
spiny lizard Moloch horridus | desert lizard that feeds on ants |
Chinese alligator
Alligator sinensis | small alligator of the Yangtze valley of China having unwebbed digits |
black rat snake
blacksnake pilot blacksnake
mountain blacksnake
Elaphe obsoleta | large harmless shiny black North American snake |
mountain quail
mountain partridge
Oreortyx picta palmeri | California partridge, slightly larger than the California quail |
Chinese goose
Anser cygnoides | very large wild goose of northeast Asia, interbreeds freely with the greylag |
| Greater Swiss Mountain dog | the largest of the four Swiss breeds |
| Bernese mountain dog | large powerful long-haired blackoated Swiss dog with deep tan or russet markings on legs and white blaze and feet and chest marking, formerly used for draft |
cougar
puma
catamount mountain lion
painter
panther Felis concolor | large American feline resembling a lion |
mountain beaver
sewellel
Aplodontia rufa | bulky nocturnal burrowing rodent of uplands of the Pacific coast of North America, the most primitive living rodent |
| mountain paca | rodent of mountains of western South America |
mountain chinchilla
mountain viscacha | a rodent native to the mountains of Chile and Peru and now bred in captivity |
mountain zebra
Equus zebra zebra | narrow-striped nearly extinct zebra of southern Africa |
| mountain sheep | any wild sheep inhabiting mountainous regions |
bighorn
bighorn sheep
cimarron
Rocky Mountain bighorn
Rocky Mountain sheep
Ovis canadensis | wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns |
mountain goat
Rocky Mountain goat
Oreamnos americanus | sure-footed mammal of mountainous northwestern North America |
mountain nyala
Tragelaphus buxtoni | shaggy antelope of mountains of Ethiopia |
mountain gorilla
Gorilla gorilla beringei | gorilla of Kivu highlands |
Rocky Mountain whitefish
Prosopium williamsonii | whitefish of the western United States and Canada |
Chinese paddlefish
Psephurus gladis | fish of larger rivers of China similar to the Mississippi paddlefish |
| Chinese lantern | a collapsible paper lantern in bright colors, used for decorative purposes |
| Chinese puzzle | intricate or ingenious puzzle consisting of boxes within boxes |
Chinese Wall
Great Wall
Great Wall of China | a fortification , miles long built across northern China in the rd century BC, it averages meters in width |
mountain bike
all-terrain bike
offoader | a bicycle with a sturdy frame and fat tires, originally designed for riding in mountainous country |
| mountain tent | a lightweight tent with a floor, flaps close with a zipper |
| mountain trail | a trail through mountainous country |
| Chinese | any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China, regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system |
Mandarin
Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin dialect
Beijing dialect | the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China |
Tai Nuea
Chinese Shan
Dehong Dai | a branch of the Tai languages |
Chinese cabbage
celery cabbage
Chinese celery | elongated head of crisp celery-like stalks and light green leaves |
lingonberry
mountain cranberry
cowberry
lowbush cranberry | tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller |
kiwi
kiwi fruit
Chinese gooseberry | fuzzy brown egg-shaped fruit with slightly tart green flesh |
jujube Chinese date
Chinese jujube | dark red plumlike fruit of Old World buckthorn trees |
coriander
Chinese parsley
cilantro | parsley-like herb used as seasoning or garnish |
| Chinese mustard | very hot prepared mustard |
Chinese anise
star anise
star aniseed | anise-scented star-shaped fruit or seed used in Asian cooking and medicine |
Chinese brown sauce
brown sauce | a sauce based on soy sauce |
fried rice
Chinese fried rice | boiled rice mixed with scallions and minced pork or shrimp and quickly scrambled with eggs |
| Rocky Mountain National Park | a national park in Colorado having mountains and lakes and streams and forests |
Vermont
Green Mountain State
VT | a state in New England |
West Virginia
Mountain State
WV | a state in east central United States |
Balkans
Balkan Mountains
Balkan Mountain Range | the major mountain range of Bulgaria and the Balkan Peninsula |
mountain
mount | a land mass that projects well above its surroundings, higher than a hill |
| mountain peak | the summit of a mountain |
pass
mountain pass
notch | the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks, we got through the pass before it started to snow |