mountainous
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Bundibugyo is one of four species or strains of Ebola known to infect humans, named after a mountainous district in Uganda where the first outbreak took place in 2007.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
The underlying work has a mountainous landscape in the style of hit television painter Bob Ross.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
After a couple of months, they went to a mountainous village south of Valencia called Villalonga to live with a woman called Trixie.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
Back then, the tall angled ceilings seemed to soar and the breakfast combos looked mountainous.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
“The mountains” meant the mountainous region about seventy miles to the west.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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Vocabulary lists containing mountainous
South America - Middle School
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Eastern Europe - Introductory
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East Asia - Middle School
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