Alpestrine: alternatives and connections

A very high mountain. Specifically, in the plural, the highest chain of mountains in Europe, containing the lofty mountains of Switzer…

Of or pertaining to the Alps.

A long staff, pointed with iron, used in climbing the Alps.

Of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain; as, Alpine snows; Alpine plants.

A climber of the Alps.

Of or pertaining to a chain of mountains in the United States, commonly called the Allegheny mountains.

A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc…

A small species of antelope (Rupicapra tragus), living on the loftiest mountain ridges of Europe, as the Alps, Pyrenees, etc. It posse…

On the hither side of the Alps with reference to Rome, that is, on the south side of the Alps; -- opposed to transalpine.

A condition of endemic or inherited idiocy, accompanied by physical degeneracy and deformity (usually with goiter), frequent in certai…

A little, perennial, white, woolly plant (Leontopodium alpinum), growing at high elevations in the Alps.

A rock occurring in the Alps, consisting of saussurite and smaragdite; -- sometimes called gabbro.

A name given to the series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene T…

An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in th…

A sliding, as down a snow slope in the Alps.

Inhabitants of the eastern Swiss Alps.

Of or pertaining to the Helvetii, the ancient inhabitant of the Alps, now Switzerland, or to the modern states and inhabitant of the A…

greater than normal in quantity or amount; "a high temperature"; "a high price"; "the high point of his career"; "high risks"; "has hi…