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Southeastern

adjective

Situated in or oriented toward the southeast. Synonyms: southeast, southeasterly.

Of a region of the United States generally including Alabama; Georgia; Florida; Tennessee; South Carolina; North Carolina.

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... Department of State Police promptly referred the matter to the Captain of "C" Troop, with orders to act. For Cumberland County, being within the southeastern quarter of the Commonwealth, lies ...

— Americans All - Stories of American Life of To-Day • Various

... watching the Gulf of Mexico. He could see Florida off to his right, and the arching coast of the southeastern United States. He could even make ...

— The Next Logical Step • Benjamin William Bova

... most species of Phyllomedusa, all species of Agalychnis, and that of Pachymedusa are similar. Characteristically the tadpoles are generalized pelagic types that develop in ponds, but at least some of the small specialized Phyllomedusa in southeastern Brazil have stream-adapted tadpoles with funnel-shaped mouths (Cochran, 1955; Bokermann, 1966). Knowledge of the life histories of the other species of Phyllomedusa should aid in the interpretation of the phylogenetic relationships of the several groups of frogs ...

— The Genera of Phyllomedusine Frogs (Anura Hylidae) • William E. Duellman

... the Olive mountains, beyond which flows the Esopus. Rondout creek, the Wallkill, and the Hudson, water the fertile vales lying among the hills. To the south stretches the line of the Shawangunk toward the Delaware river, and on the extreme southern and southeastern horizon rise the Highlands, with the river gap, the rifted sides of the Storm King, the Beacons, the great broad shoulders of Schunemunk;—even the white buildings on the plain at West Point may be seen glittering in the afternoon ...

— The Continental Monthly, Volume V. Issue I • Various

... ago a pretended miracle was reported as having occurred upon a mountain called La Salette, in the southeastern part of France, where the Virgin Mary appeared in a very miraculous manner to two young shepherds. The story, however, was soon proved to be a despicable trick of the priest, and as such was publicly exposed. But the Bishop of Lucon, within whose diocese the sacred mountain stands, appears ...

— Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal • Sarah J Richardson

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