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nounthe chief mountain range of western North America; extends from British Columbia to northern New Mexico; forms the continental divide
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- milk a river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River
- banff a popular vacation spot in the Canadian Rockies
- chinook a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies
- milk river a river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River
- crotalus viridis widely distributed between the Mississippi and the Rockies
- pike's peak a mountain peak in the Rockies in central Colorado (14,109 feet high)
- snow eater a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies
- arnica cordifolia wildflower with heart-shaped leaves and broad yellow flower heads; of alpine areas west of the Rockies from Alaska to southern California
- dangling participle a participle (usually at the beginning of a sentence) apparently modifying a word other than the word intended: e.g., `flying across the country' in `flying across the country the Rockies came into view'
- prairie rattler widely distributed between the Mississippi and the Rockies