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Relating to the Alps, a mountain range in Western Europe

Gazing up an Alpine height.

Of, relating to, or inhabiting mountains, especially above the timber line

alpine snows.

of or relating to slalom and downhill skiing. (Compare Nordic.)
Any of several plants, native to mountain habitats, often grown in a rock garden
{a} pertaining to the Alps, or to high mountains, very lofty
{i} member of a Caucasian people of central Europe (characterized by a heavy body structure, broad head, and straight to wavy hair)
{s} of or pertaining the Alps; of or pertaining to downhill skiing; of or pertaining to the Alpine peoples of central Europe (Anthropology)
(n) Make of car stereo from a Japanese-based company From the name of the manufacturers of the top in-car speaker systems "Sit back and let the Alpine blast" -- Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince (Summertime [1991])
usually pertaining to mountainous area above 4900'
The zone of low arctic-type vegetation above tree line
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(a) [geomorphology] - (adjective) Characteristic of, or resembling the European Alps, or any lofty mountain or mountain system, especially one so modified by intense glacial erosion as to contain cirques, horns, etc (ex alpine lake) GG; (b) (not recommended as a landform term) An ecological community term for high-elevation plant communities SW & GG
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relating to or characteristic of alps; "alpine sports"
Of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain; as, Alpine snows; Alpine plants
living or growing above the timber line; "alpine flowers"
Like the Alps; lofty. ``Gazing up an Alpine height. --Tennyson
Alpine means existing in or relating to mountains, especially the ones in Switzerland. grassy, alpine meadows
Alpines are small flowering plants that grow high up on mountains and are sometimes grown in gardens. There are many different types of alpines. relating to the Alps (=a mountain range in central Europe) or to mountains in general (alpinus, from Alpes )
Like the Alps; lofty
{s} mountainous; pertaining to mountains
relating to the Alps and their inhabitants; "Alpine countries, Switzerland, Italy, France, and Germany"
living or growing above the timber line; "alpine flowers" relating to the Alps and their inhabitants; "Alpine countries, Switzerland, Italy, France, and Germany" relating to or characteristic of alps; "alpine sports
relating to or characteristic of alps; "alpine sports
alpine bullhead
A species of fish in the Cottidae family, Cottus poecilopus
alpine bullheads
plural form of alpine bullhead
alpine chough
A crow, Pyrrhocorax graculus, that breeds locally in the highest mountains of southern Europe, the Alps, across central Asia and India
alpine choughs
plural form of alpine chough
alpine newt
a newt of the Salamander order Caudata (or Urodela), Ichthyosaura alpestris, formerly Triturus alpestris and Mesotriton alpestris
alpine newts
plural form of alpine newt
alpine-chough
Attributive form of alpine chough, noun
Alpine glacier
a glacier in mountainous terrain
Alpine glacier
A stream or sheet of ice located high in a mountain valley and fed by streams or compacted snow
Alpine glacier
A mountain glacier that is confined by highlands
Alpine glacier
n a glacier formed high in the mountains around a horn, extending down valley to a point where it melts in the valley
Alpine glacier
a) Any glacier in a mountain range except an ice cap or ice sheet It usually originates in a cirque and may flow down into a valley previously carved by a stream Compare - continental glacier GG b) (not preferred - refer to U-shaped valley): (relict) - landforms or sediments formed, modified or deposited by a glacier in or on mountains or high hills that has since melted away Compare - glacial-valley floor, glacial-valley wall SW
Alpine orogeny
Mountain-building event that affected a broad segment of southern Europe and the Mediterranean region during the middle Tertiary period. It produced intense metamorphism, crumpling of rock strata, and uplift accompanied by faulting. It was responsible for the elevation of the present Alps, from which the name derives, the uplifting of plateaus in the Balkan Peninsula and in Corsica and Sardinia, and volcanic activity in England, France, Iceland, and parts of Italy
Alpine skiing
Class of competitive ski events consisting of speed events (the downhill and the supergiant slalom) and technical events (the slalom and giant slalom). Speed events are contested in single runs down longer, steeper, faster courses, with fewer turns than those featured in the technical events. Alpine skiing was first included in the Olympic Games in 1936. See also cross-country skiing; Nordic skiing
Alpine swift
{i} small bird that breeds in mountains from south Europe to the Himalaya
alpine anemone
silky-foliaged herb of the Rocky Mountains with bluish-white flowers
alpine ash
tall timber tree with hard heavy pinkish or light brown wood
alpine azalea
creeping mat-forming evergreen shrub of high mountain regions of northern hemisphere grown for its rose-pink flowers
alpine bearberry
deciduous creeping shrub bright red in autumn having black or blue-black berries; alpine and circumpolar
alpine besseya
small pale plant with dense spikes of pale bluish-violet flowers; of high cold meadows from Wyoming and Utah to New Mexico
alpine celery pine
small shrubby celery pine of New Zealand
alpine clover
European mountain clover with fragrant usually pink flowers
alpine clubmoss
a variety of clubmoss
alpine coltsfoot
rhizomatous herb with purple-red flowers suitable for groundcover; sometimes placed in genus Tussilago
alpine enchanter's nightshade
an Alpine variety of enchanter's nightshade
alpine fir
medium-tall timber tree of the Rocky Mountains having a narrowly conic to columnar crown
alpine glacier
a glacier that moves down from a high valley
alpine gold
low tufted plant having hairy stems each topped by a flower head with short narrow yellow rays; northwestern United States
alpine goldenrod
goldenrod similar to narrow goldenrod but having bristly hairs on edges of leaf stalks; mountainous regions of western America
alpine lady fern
a lady fern with deeply cut leaf segments; found in the Rocky Mountains
alpine milk vetch
perennial of mountainous areas of Eurasia and North America
alpine mouse-ear
widespread in Arctic and on mountains in Europe
alpine plant
{i} small plants that live at high altitudes
alpine salamander
ovoviviparous amphibian of the Alps
alpine totara
low wide-spreading coniferous shrub of New Zealand mountains
alpine woodsia
slender fern of northern North America with shining chestnut-colored stipes and bipinnate fronds with usually distinct marginal sori
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