alpestrine

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   growing at high altitudes

   Synonymssubalpine

   Similarupland

Questions about alpestrine

What does alpestrine mean?

alpestrine means "growing at high altitudes".

How many syllables are in alpestrine?

alpestrine has 3 syllables: al-pe-strine. The stress falls on "al".

What is another word for alpestrine?

Close synonyms include subalpine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alpestrine a common word?

alpestrine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.