alpine : Idioms & Phrases
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- alpine anemone
- alpine ash
- alpine azalea
- alpine bearberry
- alpine besseya
- alpine celery pine
- alpine clover
- alpine clubmoss
- alpine coltsfoot
- alpine enchanter's nightshade
- alpine fir
- alpine glacier
- alpine gold
- alpine golden chain
- alpine goldenrod
- alpine hulsea
- alpine lady fern
- alpine lift
- alpine milk vetch
- alpine mouse-ear
- alpine salamander
- alpine scurvy
- alpine sunflower
- alpine totara
- alpine type of glacier
- alpine woodsia
alpine anemone
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noun silky-foliaged herb of the Rocky Mountains with bluish-white flowers
mountain anemone; Anemone tetonensis.
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alpine ash
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noun tall timber tree with hard heavy pinkish or light brown wood
Eucalyptus delegatensis; mountain oak.
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alpine azalea
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noun creeping mat-forming evergreen shrub of high mountain regions of northern hemisphere grown for its rose-pink flowers
Loiseleuria procumbens; mountain azalea.
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alpine bearberry
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noun deciduous creeping shrub bright red in autumn having black or blue-black berries; alpine and circumpolar
black bearberry; Arctostaphylos alpina.
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alpine besseya
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noun small pale plant with dense spikes of pale bluish-violet flowers; of high cold meadows from Wyoming and Utah to New Mexico
Besseya alpina.
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alpine celery pine
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noun small shrubby celery pine of New Zealand
Phyllocladus alpinus.
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alpine clover
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noun European mountain clover with fragrant usually pink flowers
Trifolium alpinum.
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alpine clubmoss
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noun a variety of club moss
Lycopodium alpinum.
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alpine coltsfoot
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noun rhizomatous herb with purple-red flowers suitable for groundcover; sometimes placed in genus Tussilago
Tussilago alpina; Homogyne alpina.
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alpine enchanter's nightshade
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noun an Alpine variety of enchanter's nightshade
Circaea alpina.
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alpine fir
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noun medium-tall timber tree of the Rocky Mountains having a narrowly conic to columnar crown
subalpine fir; Abies lasiocarpa.
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alpine glacier
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noun a glacier that moves down from a high valley
Alpine glacier.
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alpine gold
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noun low tufted plant having hairy stems each topped by a flower head with short narrow yellow rays; northwestern United States
Hulsea algida; alpine gold.
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alpine golden chain
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noun an ornamental shrub or tree of the genus Laburnum
Scotch laburnum; Laburnum alpinum.
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alpine goldenrod
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noun goldenrod similar to narrow goldenrod but having bristly hairs on edges of leaf stalks; mountainous regions of western America
Solidago multiradiata.
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alpine hulsea
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noun low tufted plant having hairy stems each topped by a flower head with short narrow yellow rays; northwestern United States
Hulsea algida; alpine gold.
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alpine lady fern
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noun a lady fern with deeply cut leaf segments; found in the Rocky Mountains
Athyrium distentifolium.
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alpine lift
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noun a surface lift where riders hold a bar and are pulled up the hill on their skis
T-bar; T-bar lift.
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alpine milk vetch
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noun perennial of mountainous areas of Eurasia and North America
Astragalus alpinus.
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alpine mouse-ear
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noun widespread in the Arctic and on mountains in Europe
Cerastium alpinum; Arctic mouse-ear.
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alpine salamander
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noun ovoviviparous amphibian of the Alps
Salamandra atra.
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alpine scurvy
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noun a disease caused by deficiency of niacin or tryptophan (or by a defect in the metabolic conversion of tryptophan to niacin); characterized by gastrointestinal disturbances and erythema and nervous or mental disorders; may be caused by malnutrition or alcoholism or other nutritional impairments
mal rosso; pellagra; mayidism; Saint Ignatius' itch; maidism; mal de la rosa.
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alpine sunflower
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noun whitish hairy plant with featherlike leaves and a few stout stems each bearing an especially handsome solitary large yellow flower head; mountainous regions north central United States
Tetraneuris grandiflora; Hymenoxys grandiflora; old man of the mountain.
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alpine totara
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noun low wide-spreading coniferous shrub of New Zealand mountains
Podocarpus nivalis.
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alpine type of glacier
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noun a glacier that moves down from a high valley
Alpine glacier.
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alpine woodsia
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noun slender fern of northern North America with shining chestnut-colored stipes and bipinnate fronds with usually distinct marginal sori
Woodsia alpina; flower-cup fern; northern woodsia.
