Alpestrine

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  • adjective. Growing at high altitudes; alpine or subalpine.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining or peculiar to the Alps, or other mountainous regions: as, “alpestrine diseases,” Dana.
  • In botany, growing on mountains below the alpine region, that is, below the limit of tree-growth as determined by cold.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Pertaining to the Alps, or other high mountains
  • adjective. Growing on the elevated parts of mountains, but not above the timber line; subalpine.
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  • adjective. growing at high altitudes
  • Word Usage
    "We go passing into the mid selenolatry for housebroken two televangelism and platyhelminthes concerned on the alpestrine of the goop."
    Equivalent
    highland  upland  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    subalpine