Alpine
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- adjective
- /ˈælpaɪn/
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alpino
- We have all had fantasies about living in a beach villa on the Mediterranean coast or in an Alpine village in the picturesque Swiss countryside.
Examples
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These changes in the Alpine world are accelerating.
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In contrast, our estimates suggest that the southern part of the Pavia province and the municipalities of the Alpine area, except Sondrio, tended mainly to "import" impact from the rest of the region.
Academic text (2015) -
Why not an Alpine cave?
Fiction book (1999) -
The one that gave us names like "Mediterranean Climate" and "Alpine Climate."
Blog text (29) -
Strategy session followed strategy session, all held in the painfully primitive setting of a centuries-old, electricity-free Alpine chalet.
Fiction book (2001) -
Boernstein, in a splendidly plumed Alpine hat, rode astride a horse at the head of his regiment.
Academic text (2011) -
A photograph of the venerable gentleman seated on a couch is seen in front of a picture of a wide waterfall, perhaps in an Alpine setting and certainly not in arid Senegal.
Academic text (2010) -
To estimate the prevalence of bovine tuberculosis in the Alpine region, we studied the epidemiology of Mycobacterium caprae in wildlife during the 2009-2012 hunting seasons.
Academic text (2015) -
Frankenstein shifts from sublime Alpine and Arctic natural landscapes to ponder the incommensurable horror inspired by Dr. Frankenstein's posthuman Creature.
Academic text (2016) -
The festival celebrated Alpine culture with traditional music and dance performances.
Compounds
- Australian
A tall Australian tree with hard pinkish or light brown wood used for furniture
- Specialized
A low shrub that grows close to the ground in mountains and has red autumn leaves and dark berries
- Specialized
A low plant with creeping stems and small scale-like leaves that grows in cold mountains and Arctic areas
- Specialized
A low plant with purple-red flowers that grows from underground stems and spreads to cover the ground
A small plant with white flowers that grows in moist shaded mountain woods
- US
A medium to tall evergreen tree that grows in high mountains, with a narrow cone-shaped crown and soft flat needles
- Specialized
A large mass of ice that forms in a high mountain valley and slowly moves down it
- Specialized
A plant that grows in mountain meadows with small yellow flowers and stiff hairs on its leaf stalks
- Specialized
A low plant with small bright yellow flowers that grows on rocky mountain slopes
- Specialized
A low plant in small clumps with hairy stems and yellow flower heads that grows in high mountain areas
- Specialized
A small plant with purple flowers that grows every year on high mountain slopes
A moving bar on a slope that pulls people up while they keep their skis or snowboard on
A small plant with white flowers that grows year after year in cold Arctic and mountain areas
- Specialized
A disease from lack of some nutrients causing skin redness, stomach pain, and memory or mood problems
- New Zealand
A low, wide-spreading evergreen shrub with thin pointed leaves that grows on New Zealand mountains
A mountain plant with feathery leaves and one large yellow flower on a hairy stem
- Specialized
A small thin fern with shiny brown stalks and divided leaves with spores at the edges
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word Alpine comes from the name of the mountains, Latin Alpes, which refers to the 'Alps' or 'high mountains'. So Alpine describes things that come from those mountains or that have a 'mountain' or 'high' character, like Alpine villages or Alpine weather.