alpine
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- adjective
- /ˈælpaɪn/
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alpino
- Found in an alpine glacier.
- alpine plants
- Alpine pennycress
But let's just stick to vertebrates for a minute with mountain goats play, There's a Alpine mountain goat they play by.
- But let's just stick to vertebrates for a minute with mountain goats play, There's a Alpine mountain goat they play by.
Examples
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The other option is to use traditional breeding to produce Alpine pennycress plants that grow faster and taller.
Academic text (1995) -
She noticed the ripening of raspberries and buffalo berries, the Oregon grape, and the alpine currant.
Fiction book (1993) -
This plant occurs in alpine areas of Central Europe as well as in our Rocky Mountains.
Academic text (2000) -
In their absence, the mountaintop is home to several arctic-alpine plants, living more than 100 miles south of their usual limit.
Academic text (2011) -
Photo (color): Kiwis forage in an alpine grassland.
Academic text (1993) -
Surrounding the river are also caribou herds, grizzly bears, various alpine sheep and goats, wolves, and other macrofauna.
Blog text (13) -
Many obtain their fuel supply from the even higher alpine juniper shrub that dots the slopes between 4,000 and 5,000 meters, above the edge of the highest forests.
Academic text (1993) -
Alpine pennycress doesn't just thrive on soils contaminated with zinc and cadmium; it cleans them up by removing the excess metals.
Academic text (2000) -
The hiker felt a sense of awe when she saw the stunning alpine flowers blooming at the top of the mountain.
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At the summit, the team discovered rare alpine species that can only survive in harsh high-altitude conditions.
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
How High
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Alpine comes from the same root as Alps, the high mountains. An alpine plant or animal lives 'above the timber line' where trees stop growing, so these plants and animals can survive cold, strong wind, and thin soil.