offshoot of a mountain range

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• Safīd Mountain Range — ▪ mountains, Pakistan Afghanistan also called  Morga Range,  Pashto  Selseleh ye Safīd Kūh, or Selseleh ye Spīn Ghar,         mountain range forming a natural frontier between Pakistan and Afghanistan, extending westward for 100 miles (160 km)… …   Universalium

• offshoot — /ˈɒfʃut / (say ofshooht) noun 1. a shoot from a main stem, as of a plant; a lateral shoot. 2. a branch, or a descendant or scion, of a family or people. 3. anything conceived as springing or proceeding from a main stock: an offshoot of a mountain …  

• Mountain ranges of Pakistan — Highest peaks of Pakistan as seen from space Highest Karakora …   Wikipedia

• offshoot — noun Date: 1710 1. a. a collateral or derived branch, descendant, or member ; outgrowth b. a lateral branch (as of a mountain range) 2. a branch of a main stem especially of a plant …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Confusion Range — Snow on the hills around Willow Springs Canyon, eastern flank of the range, near Cowboy Pass The Confusion Rang …   Wikipedia

• Toba Kakar Range — The Toba Kakar Mountains are a Southern offshoot of the Himalayas in the Balochistan region of Pakistan. The historical route through the mountains is known as the Bolan Pass, and though the mountains are sometimes inaccurately referred to as the …   Wikipedia

• Drummond Range — /drʌmənd ˈreɪndʒ/ (say drumuhnd raynj) noun a mountain range in central Qld, an offshoot of the Great Dividing Range. Highest peak over 610 m …  

• off|shoot — «AWF SHOOT, OF », noun. 1. a shoot from the main stem of a plant; branch: »One of the offshoots of the trunk fell from high in the tree under the weight of the snow. 2. Figurative: »an offshoot of a mountain range. The nation s annual spending… …   Useful english dictionary

• japan — japanner, n. /jeuh pan /, n., adj., v., japanned, japanning. n. 1. any of various hard, durable, black varnishes, originally from Japan, for coating wood, metal, or other surfaces. 2. work varnished and figured in the Japanese manner. 3. Japans,… …   Universalium

• Japan — /jeuh pan /, n. 1. a constitutional monarchy on a chain of islands off the E coast of Asia: main islands, Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. 125,716,637; 141,529 sq. mi. (366,560 sq. km). Cap.: Tokyo. Japanese, Nihon, Nippon. 2. Sea of, the… …   Universalium

• turkey — /terr kee/, n., pl. turkeys, (esp. collectively) turkey. 1. a large, gallinaceous bird of the family Meleagrididae, esp. Meleagris gallopavo, of America, that typically has green, reddish brown, and yellowish brown plumage of a metallic luster… …   Universalium