alpine : Idioms & Phrases


alpine anemone

  • noun silky-foliaged herb of the Rocky Mountains with bluish-white flowers
    mountain anemone; Anemone tetonensis.
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alpine ash

  • noun tall timber tree with hard heavy pinkish or light brown wood
    Eucalyptus delegatensis; mountain oak.
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alpine azalea

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • noun small shrubby celery pine of New Zealand
    Phyllocladus alpinus.
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alpine clover

  • noun European mountain clover with fragrant usually pink flowers
    Trifolium alpinum.
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alpine clubmoss

  • noun a variety of club moss
    Lycopodium alpinum.
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alpine coltsfoot

  • 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

  • noun an Alpine variety of enchanter's nightshade
    Circaea alpina.
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alpine fir

  • 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

  • noun a glacier that moves down from a high valley
    Alpine glacier.
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alpine gold

  • 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

  • noun an ornamental shrub or tree of the genus Laburnum
    Scotch laburnum; Laburnum alpinum.
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alpine goldenrod

  • 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

  • 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

  • noun a lady fern with deeply cut leaf segments; found in the Rocky Mountains
    Athyrium distentifolium.
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alpine lift

  • 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

  • noun perennial of mountainous areas of Eurasia and North America
    Astragalus alpinus.
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alpine mouse-ear

  • noun widespread in the Arctic and on mountains in Europe
    Cerastium alpinum; Arctic mouse-ear.
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alpine salamander

  • noun ovoviviparous amphibian of the Alps
    Salamandra atra.
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alpine scurvy

  • 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

  • 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

  • noun low wide-spreading coniferous shrub of New Zealand mountains
    Podocarpus nivalis.
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alpine type of glacier

  • noun a glacier that moves down from a high valley
    Alpine glacier.
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alpine woodsia

  • 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.
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