Taconic

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From a Lenape language. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Other early spellings include Taughkannuc.

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Taconic

  1. A mountain range in New England, United States; A low mountain range in eastern New York, western Massachusetts, and southwestern Vermont.
    Synonym: Taconic Mountains
  2. A town in New York, United States.
  3. (geology) The geological process that resulted in the precursor to the modern Taconic mountain range and shaped much of the Appalachian range, or the time period in the early Silurian during which this occurred
    Synonym: Taconic orogeny

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