Piedmont

Word PIEDMONT
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Pronunciations /ˈpiːdmɒnt/

Definitions and meanings of "Piedmont"

What do we mean by piedmont?

An area of land formed or lying at the foot of a mountain or mountain range. noun

Of, relating to, or constituting such an area of land. adjective

Any region of foothills of a mountain range. noun

Formed or lying at the foot of a mountain range. adjective

Any region of foothills of a mountain range.

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The word "piedmont" in example sentences

The sharp relief of the mountains, with their grass-covered summits, precipitous slopes and flat open piedmont, is formed by a ridge of iron-quartzite emerging from softer metamorphic rocks. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The inspiration came from having carne crudo (and nebbiolo) that is so ubiquitous in piedmont. ❋ Unknown (2009)

At the base of the Sierra Madre Oriental mountains, shallow soils derived from sedimentary rocks support a particular community known as piedmont scrub. ❋ Unknown (2007)

During the 18th and 19th centuries, in the middle Atlantic and particularly in the Southern states, there was a long-standing cleavage between the coastal and 'piedmont' regions on the one hand and the upcountry areas to the west on the other. ❋ Stephen Retherford (2008)

Looks like the second ruts is kicking in around my home in the lower piedmont now. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What I mean is that North Carolina, as every schoolchild knows, has three distinct regions: coastal plain, piedmont, and mountains. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Her novels cover a great deal of territory, from the mills of the piedmont to the Donner Party and the Nevada desert to children suffering with chronic illness -- she contains multitudes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Weathering also left a gigantic sheet of hard iron-quartzite jutting out of the eroded piedmont schists and granite gneiss. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This crusts over the whole glacis of the eastern and northern parts of the piedmont giving very poor soils, usually skeletal lithosols if present at all. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The piedmont savanna is patchy, varying according to its degree of laterization and pan-development; in places it is marshy overlying rock pavement. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Plains of San Agustin are mostly a topographically closed basin, with some alluvial fans and piedmont slopes near the surrounding mountains of Ecoregion 23. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He was also indoctrinated into the American blues when he met piedmont blues legend Carolina Slim at a music festival and went on to play with him in the subways of New York City for several years. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There was the plantation elite of the Tidewater "who dominated the assembly and ran the government," and there were the small farmers "who penetrated the foothills, or piedmont, of the Appalachian ridges, and beyond them." ❋ Unknown (2009)

In November, 1775, Colonel Richardson led his Camden regiment of South Carolina militia into the backcountry, the wilderness piedmont of the Appalachian mountains. ❋ Maggiemac (2009)

The Uwharries are old mountains, and while hillier than the rest of the piedmont, their slopes are much more modest than the Appalachians to the west. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A high central piedmont plateau dominates the west, while gradual shelves of glacial ice characterize much of the north and south coasts. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Most of the 36 endemic birds of the Guyanan Highlands are totally restricted to the vicinity of the tepuis, mainly to the humid forest on the piedmont slopes above 600 m (Huber 1997). ❋ Unknown (2009)

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