a. [ad. L. alpīnus, f. Alpes Alps: see -INE.] Of or pertaining to the Alps; hence, of any lofty mountains.
1607. Topsell, Four-footed Beasts (1673), 405. The Alpine Mouse taketh her name from the Alpes … The Italians call it Marmota.
1759. B. Stillingfleet, Econ. Nat., in Misc. Tracts (1762), 69. Alpine plants … ripen their seeds very early.
1845. Darwin, Voy. Nat., xvi. (1858), 359. This animal [Vicuna] is pre-eminently alpine in its habits.
1847. Grote, Greece, III. xxv. 8. Mountains which rise … to an alpine height.
1861. Pratt, Flower. Pl., IV. 90. Alpine Speedwell … is found only on the Highland mountains.
1861. Hook, Lives Abps., I. vii. 402. He … perished in the Alpine snows.
