subalpine

1. 1.

   growing at high altitudes

   Synonymsalpestrine

   Similarupland

Questions about subalpine

What does subalpine mean?

subalpine means "growing at high altitudes".

How many syllables are in subalpine?

subalpine has 3 syllables: su-bal-pine. The stress falls on "su".

What is another word for subalpine?

Close synonyms include alpestrine. 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 subalpine a common word?

subalpine 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.