mountain climbing
mountaineering | the activity of climbing a mountain |
carpet bombing
area bombing
saturation bombing | an extensive and systematic bombing intended to devastate a large target |
| Kennesaw Mountain | battle of the American Civil War (), Union forces under William Tecumseh Sherman were repulsed by Confederate troops under Joseph Eggleston Johnston |
blastoderm
germinal disc
blastodisc
germinal area | a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula |
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 |
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 |
upland sandpiper
upland plover
Bartramian sandpiper
Bartramia longicauda | large plover-like sandpiper of North American fields and uplands |
| 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 |
| area | a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function, the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants |
breakfast area
breakfast nook | a place for light meals (usually near a kitchen), the breakfast nook had a built in table and seats |
cargo area
cargo deck
cargo hold
hold storage area | the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo |
| dining area | an area arranged for dining, they put up tents for the dining area |
equal-area projection
equal-area map projection | a map projection in which quadrilaterals formed by meridians and parallels have an area on the map proportional to their area on the globe |
exhibition hall
exhibition area | a large hall for holding exhibitions |
launching pad
launchpad
launch pad
launch area
pad | a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched |
local area network
LAN | a local computer network for communication between computers, especially a network connecting computers and word processors and other electronic office equipment to create a communication system between offices |
lounge
waiting room
waiting area | a room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait |
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 |
pull-off
rest area
rest stop
layby
lay-by | designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily |
seating
seats
seating room
seating area | an area that includes places where several people can sit, there is seating forstudents in this classroom |
wide area network
WAN | a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network |
wireless local area network
WLAN
wireless fidelity
WiFi | a local area network that uses high frequency radio signals to transmit and receive data over distances of a few hundred feet, uses ethernet protocol |
area
expanse
surface area | the extent of a -dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary, the area of a rectangle, it was about square feet in area |
acreage
land area | an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming), he wanted some acreage to build on |
area
region | a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve, in the abdominal region |
| area of cardiac dullness | a triangular area of the front of the chest (determined by percussion), corresponds to the part of the heart not covered by the lungs |
macula
macula lutea
macular area
yellow spot | a small yellowish central area of the retina that is rich in cones and that mediates clear detailed vision |
pyriform area
piriform area
pyriform lobe
piriform lobe | pear-shaped neural structure on either side of the brain in the rhinencephalon |
cortical area
cortical region | any of various regions of the cerebral cortex |
association area
association cortex | cortical areas that are neither motor or sensory but are thought to be involved in higher processing of information |
auditory area
auditory cortex | the cortical area that receives auditory information from the medial geniculate body |
Broca's area
Broca's center
Broca's gyrus
Broca's convolution
convolution of Broca | the motor speech center in the left hemisphere of the brain in most people |
| Brodmann's area | one of the cortical areas mapped out on the basis of its cytoarchitecture |