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Subalpine   Listen
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Subalpine  adj.  (Bot. & Zool.) Inhabiting the somewhat high slopes and summits of mountains, but considerably below the snow line.






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"Subalpine" Quotes from Famous Books



... wreath—daisies, anemones, columbines, erythroniums, larkspurs, etc., among which we wade knee-deep and waist-deep, the bright corollas in myriads touching petal to petal. Altogether this is the richest subalpine garden I ever found, a perfect floral elysium.—John ...
— The Mountain that was 'God' • John H. Williams

... fingers.* (* It is the Gualtheria odorata. The pejoa is found round the lake of Cocollar, which gives birth to the great river Guarapiche. We met with the same shrub at the Cuchilla de Guanaguana. It is a subalpine plant, which forms at the Silla de Caracas a zone much higher than in the province of Cumana. The leaves of the pejoa have even a more agreeable smell than those of the Myrtus pimenta, but they yield no perfume ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America • Alexander von Humboldt



Words linked to "Subalpine" :   highland, subalpine fir



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