Meaning of ALPINE
| Pronunciation: | | 'alpIn, 'alpIn
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- [adj] (biology) living or growing above the timber line; "alpine flowers"
- [adj] relating to the Alps and their inhabitants; "Alpine countries, Switzerland, Italy, France, and Germany"
- [adj] relating to or characteristic of alps; "alpine sports"
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| | Definition: | | \Al"pine\, a. [L. Alpinus, fr. Alpes the Alps: cf. F.
Alpin.]
1. Of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain;
as, Alpine snows; Alpine plants.
2. Like the Alps; lofty. ``Gazing up an Alpine height.''
--Tennyson.
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