monadnock
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Etymology[edit]
From the name of Mount Monadnock in New England, which derives from an Abenaki word, perhaps menonadenak, menonadenek (“smooth mountain”) or menadenak, menadenek (“isolated mountain”),[1] from aden (“mountain”).
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monadnock (plural monadnocks)
- A hill or mountain standing isolated above a predominantly flat plain.
- 1901, Philip Emerson, “Notes on the New England Upland about the White Mountains”, in Appalachia, volume IX, page 57:
- Eastward from the White Mountains, the open sea of the upland country comes right to the monadnock shore, with hardly an outlying island; southward the upland is covered for miles by an archipelago of monadnock groups and peaks.
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- ^ "Vermont Soils with Names of American Indian Origin" United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service. Retrieved January 6, 2008.