intervalley

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adjective

Between valleys.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectiveintervalley (not comparable)
  1. not comparableBetween valleys.
nounintervalley (plural intervalleys)

plural intervalleys

  1. A valley lying between other valleys, or between other entities.

    On adult shells the posterior end of the notch is ill defined and may be filled with callus flesh with the intervalleys between the ridge.

    1970, Geological Survey of Great Britain, Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, page 70
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    At the outer margins of the intervalleys the sagebrush type is modified by an admixture of grasses and weeds, of which wheat bunch grass, wild geranium, lupine, balsam root, and giant wild rye are most conspicuous.

    1929, Geological Survey (U.S.), Land Classification of the Northern Great Plains: Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming, page 55

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁n̥tér
  3. Proto-Italic*n̥ter
  4. Latininter
  5. Latininter-
  6. Englishinter-
  7. Englishvalley
  8. Englishintervalley

From inter- + valley.

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