Definition of "Karakoram"
proper noun A mountain range located in Gilgit , Ladakh and Baltistan , containing more than sixty peaks above 7,000 m (22,960 ft ), including K 2, the second highest peak in the world . quotations examples
Quotations The Labiate genus Perovskia , to which the plant here figured belongs , is a somewhat anomalous one , comprising four species , two of which are natives of Turkestan with a third confined to Beluchistan , and a fourth , the one now depicted , which extends from the mountains of Afghanistan through the Western Himalaya to Western Tibet . In the Karakoram Range it is met with at elevations up to 10,000 feet above sea level .
1912, Curtis's Botanical Magazine, volume 8, page 8441