subalpineadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌsʌbˈalpʌɪn/, U.S.

/ˌsəbˈælˌpaɪn/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin subalpīnus.

Etymology: < classical Latin subalpīnus situated beneath the Alps < sub- sub- prefix + alpīnus Alpine adj. Compare Middle French, French subalpin (1579 or earlier).

A. adj.

1. Designating regions lying at the foot of the Alps; of or relating to such regions or similar localities.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [adjective] > range > spec > specific situation in

cisalpine1542

transalpinea1592

subalpine1656

sub-Apennine1815

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Subalpine, under the Alps.

1779 R. Turner View of Earth 19 To this division of Italy may be referred the countries lying under the Alps, called the Subalpine countries.

1842 W. C. Taylor Student's Man. Anc. Hist. (ed. 3) xiii. §1. 365 Subalpine Italy received the name of Gaul from the Gallic hordes that settled in the northern and western districts.

1849 T. W. Allies Jrnl. in France 143 We..had a fine sub-alpine drive to Desenzano on the Lake Garda.

1907 A. Lang Hist. Scotl. IV. xvi. 412 A miserable little sub-Alpine inn.

1979 R. Anderton et al. Dynamic Stratigr. Brit. Isles ix. 123/2 As the nappe thrust front overrode the molasse basin, it gave rise to the sub-Alpine molasse.

1996 L. Al-Hafidh et al. Europe: Rough Guide (ed. 3) ii. i. 85 Salzburg..a natural magnet for those seeking the best of Austria's Baroque heritage and a taste of subalpine scenery as well.

a. Partially alpine in character; (Ecology) designating upland areas and slopes just below the treeline, situated adjacent to and below the alpine zone; of, relating to, or characteristic of such areas and slopes.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [adjective] > relating to or situated in

mountuousa1382

mountainousc1384

Alpine?a1475

Alpish1577

Alpian1607

Alpsian?1610

mountained1628

alpestral1697

subalpine1803

intermontane1807

montane1863

1803 Curtis's Bot. Mag. 17 No. 636 This very beautiful shrub..is peculiar to the subalpine tracts of eastern Asia.

1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall i. 3 The hills and cliffs bordering the Bristol Channel..forming a coast remarkable for its general elevation and the sub-alpine character of some of its valleys.

1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 242 Wet sub~alpine limestone rocks of York and Durham.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xxi. 708 The true home of the mountain lemming is..the northern sub-alpine region where marshy and tussocky ground bears juniper bushes and..lichens.

1980 Beautiful Brit. Columbia Summer 32 Park naturalists have conducted hikes from Balsam Lake through the subalpine meadows to Eva Lake.

2005 R. Canning Rockies v. 110 Few species of tree can survive the rigors of the subalpine environment, where their main competition is not other trees but the wind and cold.

b. Designating plants and animals native to or inhabiting a subalpine habitat.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [adjective] > characteristic of particular region or period

southerneOE

African1578

Asiatic1670

American1678

Creole1758

Californian1785

subalpine1808

Antarctic1835

Adelaidean1847

Arctic1876

Atlantic1876

gerontogeous1880

Cenomanian1902

Lusitanian1907

pantropic1911

pantropical1913

native1920

the world > animals > by habitat > [adjective] > terrestrial > inhabiting high ground

uplandish1545

upland1859

subalpine1974

1808 tr. A. L. Millin Trav. Southern Depts. France xl. 279 The most beautiful sub-alpine plants grow in abundance on the surrounding hills.

1885 Trans. & Proc. Royal Soc. Austral. 7 240 His statement that gum-trees do not grow at high altitudes is erroneous, as there are several subalpine species.

1908 Bot. Gaz. May 333 The two trees that dominate the society are the Engelmann spruce (Picea Engelmanni) and the subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa).

1974 Ecology 55 874 The larger subalpine butterflies probably have fairly large ranges.

1995 D. R. Butler Zoogeomorphology vii. 128 Marmots are steppe-dwelling animals in central Asia, whereas in western North America they are subalpine animals.

2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 9 Oct. c32/1 The main draw is the subalpine larch, a relatively rare deciduous pine.

B. n.

1. In plural. With the. The regions at the foot of the Alps, the foothills of the Alps. Also: a region adjacent to and below the alpine zone of a mountain range. rare.

ΚΠ

1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World i. v. 7 The little Town of Quiero amongst the Subalpines.

1928 Geogr. Jrnl. 71 42 We could wish that the Säntis Group, Coolidge's ‘Alps of North Switzerland’, had been dealt with as a separate group instead of being merged among the ‘Sub-alpines’.

2004 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 8 Feb. b16 Yet the best place to feel the start of the transformation is in the sub-alpines, the lands of four seasons.

†2. A native or inhabitant of the regions at the foot of the Alps. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1802 Morning Chron. 15 Oct. General Jourdan gave a toast in these terms, ‘The grateful Subalpines to Bonaparte; the Union is his achievement.’

1845 T. McCrie in Lect. Foreign Churches iii. 171 Are you a Waldensian? Are you a Subalpine?

1863 Times 10 Apr. 6/3 It is very easy for a stranger to like these Subalpines best, to give them the precedence over their more gifted but less disciplined brethren.

3. A subalpine plant. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1849 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3 98 The plants of the mountains, united with certain plants frequent in the plains, form the basis of its vegetation, and the real subalpines attain in it their greatest development both as to size and number.

1897 W. W. Bailey New Eng. Wild Flowers 71 To these should be added a few sub-alpines, which the casual collector would not be likely to distinguish from alpines proper.

1941 Amer. Naturalist 75 241 In the Sierra Nevada, plants reacting like subalpines are found at altitudes between 5,000 and 8,000 feet.

1983 Ecol. Monogr. 53 387/2 Conditions were less than favorable for mesophytic subalpines.

Compounds

subalpine warbler n. [compare scientific Latin Sylvia subalpina (Bonelli) (1820 or earlier)] a small warbler, Sylvia cantillans (family Sylviidae), the male of which is chiefly blue-grey above and reddish below, and which breeds in southern Europe, Turkey, and North Africa and typically frequents dry scrubby hillsides and ravines.

ΚΠ

1826 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XIII. ii. 221 Sylvia subalpina..Subalpine Warbler.

1849 W. Thompson et al. Nat. Hist. Ireland I. 189 On this day, a sub-alpine warbler (Sylvia subalpina, Bonelli)—a south of Europe species—also came on board.

1933 Brit. Birds 27 164 I received a small warbler in the flesh which I considered to be a specimen of the Sub-Alpine Warbler (Sylvia c. cantillans).

2003 B. Gibbons Travellers' Nature Guide: France 281/1 The gorge itself has..many scrub birds such as subalpine warblers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	subalpine
释义	subalpineadj.n. Brit. /ˌsʌbˈalpʌɪn/, U.S. /ˌsəbˈælˌpaɪn/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin subalpīnus. Etymology: < classical Latin subalpīnus situated beneath the Alps < sub- sub- prefix + alpīnus Alpine adj. Compare Middle French, French subalpin (1579 or earlier). A. adj. 1. Designating regions lying at the foot of the Alps; of or relating to such regions or similar localities. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [adjective] > range > spec > specific situation in cisalpine1542 transalpinea1592 subalpine1656 sub-Apennine1815 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Subalpine, under the Alps. 1779 R. Turner View of Earth 19 To this division of Italy may be referred the countries lying under the Alps, called the Subalpine countries. 1842 W. C. Taylor Student's Man. Anc. Hist. (ed. 3) xiii. §1. 365 Subalpine Italy received the name of Gaul from the Gallic hordes that settled in the northern and western districts. 1849 T. W. Allies Jrnl. in France 143 We..had a fine sub-alpine drive to Desenzano on the Lake Garda. 1907 A. Lang Hist. Scotl. IV. xvi. 412 A miserable little sub-Alpine inn. 1979 R. Anderton et al. Dynamic Stratigr. Brit. Isles ix. 123/2 As the nappe thrust front overrode the molasse basin, it gave rise to the sub-Alpine molasse. 1996 L. Al-Hafidh et al. Europe: Rough Guide (ed. 3) ii. i. 85 Salzburg..a natural magnet for those seeking the best of Austria's Baroque heritage and a taste of subalpine scenery as well. 2. a. Partially alpine in character; (Ecology) designating upland areas and slopes just below the treeline, situated adjacent to and below the alpine zone; of, relating to, or characteristic of such areas and slopes. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [adjective] > relating to or situated in mountuousa1382 mountainousc1384 Alpine?a1475 Alpish1577 Alpian1607 Alpsian?1610 mountained1628 alpestral1697 subalpine1803 intermontane1807 montane1863 1803 Curtis's Bot. Mag. 17 No. 636 This very beautiful shrub..is peculiar to the subalpine tracts of eastern Asia. 1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall i. 3 The hills and cliffs bordering the Bristol Channel..forming a coast remarkable for its general elevation and the sub-alpine character of some of its valleys. 1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 242 Wet sub~alpine limestone rocks of York and Durham. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xxi. 708 The true home of the mountain lemming is..the northern sub-alpine region where marshy and tussocky ground bears juniper bushes and..lichens. 1980 Beautiful Brit. Columbia Summer 32 Park naturalists have conducted hikes from Balsam Lake through the subalpine meadows to Eva Lake. 2005 R. Canning Rockies v. 110 Few species of tree can survive the rigors of the subalpine environment, where their main competition is not other trees but the wind and cold. b. Designating plants and animals native to or inhabiting a subalpine habitat. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [adjective] > characteristic of particular region or period southerneOE African1578 Asiatic1670 American1678 Creole1758 Californian1785 subalpine1808 Antarctic1835 Adelaidean1847 Arctic1876 Atlantic1876 gerontogeous1880 Cenomanian1902 Lusitanian1907 pantropic1911 pantropical1913 native1920 the world > animals > by habitat > [adjective] > terrestrial > inhabiting high ground uplandish1545 upland1859 subalpine1974 1808 tr. A. L. Millin Trav. Southern Depts. France xl. 279 The most beautiful sub-alpine plants grow in abundance on the surrounding hills. 1885 Trans. & Proc. Royal Soc. Austral. 7 240 His statement that gum-trees do not grow at high altitudes is erroneous, as there are several subalpine species. 1908 Bot. Gaz. May 333 The two trees that dominate the society are the Engelmann spruce (Picea Engelmanni) and the subalpine fir (Abies lasiocarpa). 1974 Ecology 55 874 The larger subalpine butterflies probably have fairly large ranges. 1995 D. R. Butler Zoogeomorphology vii. 128 Marmots are steppe-dwelling animals in central Asia, whereas in western North America they are subalpine animals. 2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 9 Oct. c32/1 The main draw is the subalpine larch, a relatively rare deciduous pine. B. n. 1. In plural. With the. The regions at the foot of the Alps, the foothills of the Alps. Also: a region adjacent to and below the alpine zone of a mountain range. rare. ΚΠ 1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World i. v. 7 The little Town of Quiero amongst the Subalpines. 1928 Geogr. Jrnl. 71 42 We could wish that the Säntis Group, Coolidge's ‘Alps of North Switzerland’, had been dealt with as a separate group instead of being merged among the ‘Sub-alpines’. 2004 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 8 Feb. b16 Yet the best place to feel the start of the transformation is in the sub-alpines, the lands of four seasons. †2. A native or inhabitant of the regions at the foot of the Alps. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1802 Morning Chron. 15 Oct. General Jourdan gave a toast in these terms, ‘The grateful Subalpines to Bonaparte; the Union is his achievement.’ 1845 T. McCrie in Lect. Foreign Churches iii. 171 Are you a Waldensian? Are you a Subalpine? 1863 Times 10 Apr. 6/3 It is very easy for a stranger to like these Subalpines best, to give them the precedence over their more gifted but less disciplined brethren. 3. A subalpine plant. Now rare. ΚΠ 1849 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3 98 The plants of the mountains, united with certain plants frequent in the plains, form the basis of its vegetation, and the real subalpines attain in it their greatest development both as to size and number. 1897 W. W. Bailey New Eng. Wild Flowers 71 To these should be added a few sub-alpines, which the casual collector would not be likely to distinguish from alpines proper. 1941 Amer. Naturalist 75 241 In the Sierra Nevada, plants reacting like subalpines are found at altitudes between 5,000 and 8,000 feet. 1983 Ecol. Monogr. 53 387/2 Conditions were less than favorable for mesophytic subalpines. Compounds subalpine warbler n. [compare scientific Latin Sylvia subalpina (Bonelli) (1820 or earlier)] a small warbler, Sylvia cantillans (family Sylviidae), the male of which is chiefly blue-grey above and reddish below, and which breeds in southern Europe, Turkey, and North Africa and typically frequents dry scrubby hillsides and ravines. ΚΠ 1826 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. XIII. ii. 221 Sylvia subalpina..Subalpine Warbler. 1849 W. Thompson et al. Nat. Hist. Ireland I. 189 On this day, a sub-alpine warbler (Sylvia subalpina, Bonelli)—a south of Europe species—also came on board. 1933 Brit. Birds 27 164 I received a small warbler in the flesh which I considered to be a specimen of the Sub-Alpine Warbler (Sylvia c. cantillans). 2003 B. Gibbons Travellers' Nature Guide: France 281/1 The gorge itself has..many scrub birds such as subalpine warblers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1656
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