Alpestrine

English

Alternative forms

• alpestrine

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin Alpestris.

Adjective

Alpestrine (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to the Alps, or other high mountains.

   Alpestrine diseases

2. (botany) Growing on the elevated parts of mountains, but not above the tree-line; subalpine.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Alpestrine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Pearlstein, episternal, interlapse, interpales, interpleas, plenarties, presential, salipenter