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 Tony Dunn lost his home in a California wildfire, he moved to mountainous North Carolina to avoid more climate disasters.
From Barron's • May 11, 2026
It could have been in a mountainous region in Patagonia, he said, perhaps in the provinces of Chubut, Neuquén or Río Negro.
From BBC • May 10, 2026
Under Venda tribal law, every boy, before being admitted into malehood, had to attend a “mountain school,” usually situated in wooded, mountainous areas remote from the villages.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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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