Crossword clues for taconic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Taconic \Ta*con"ic\, a. (Geol.) Designating, or pertaining to, the series of rocks forming the Taconic mountains in Western New England. They were once supposed to be older than the Cambrian, but later proved to belong to the Lower Silurian and Cambrian.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mountain range in New England, perhaps from Mahican (Algonquian) */ta:hkenek/ "in the woods;" compare Unami Delaware (Algonquian) /tekenink/ "in the woods."
Wiktionary
n. 1 A low mountain range in eastern New York, western Massachusetts, and southwestern Vermont. 2 A town in New York.
Wikipedia
Taconic can refer to a location in the United States:
- Taconic, Connecticut, an unincorporated community in rural Litchfield County, Connecticut
- Taconic Correctional Facility, a medium security women's prison in Bedford Hills, New York
- Taconic Golf Club, a golf course in Williamstown, Massachusetts
- Taconic Mountains, part of the Appalachian Mountains, running through eastern New York, western Connecticut, western Massachusetts, and southwestern Vermont
- Taconic orogeny, a great mountain building period within the New York Bight region in the United States
- Taconic Shores, New York, a census-designated place
- Taconic State Park - Copake Falls Area, a state park located in the town of Copake, New York
- Taconic State Park - Rudd Pond Area, a state park in the northeast corner of Dutchess County, New York
- Taconic State Parkway, part of the New York State highway system
Usage examples of "taconic".
Burke turned off the Taconic Parkway onto Route 100, and the visibility was better.
The rain eased as Burke turned off the Taconic Parkway onto Route 100, and the visibility was better.
Forty-five miles out of Manhattan, we picked up the narrow Taconic Parkway and wound our way north into the country, passing empty rolling fields and clusters of winter-bare trees.
English and American sports cars until they came to the Westchester County toll and then, fifteen minutes later, they were out on the Taconic Parkway that snaked away northwards through a hundred miles of meadows and woodlands, and Bond settled back and silently enjoyed one of the most beautifully landscaped highways in the world, and wondered idly what the girl was doing and how, after Saratoga, he was to get to her again.
Traffic was heavy on the Taconic Parkway, then thinned out as they neared the airport.
He presided over the construction of such roads as the Meadowbrook Parkway to Long Island, the Henry Hudson Parkway, and the Taconic Parkway through the Taconic River Valley.
Built between 1940 and 1950, the Taconic was possibly the most beautiful American highway ever built, but already it was an anachronism.