alpine salamander Salamandra atra | ovoviviparous amphibian of the Alps |
western fence lizard swift blue-belly Sceloporus occidentalis | common western lizard, seen on logs or rocks |
swift | a small bird that resembles a swallow and is noted for its rapid flight |
European swift Apus apus | common European bird with a shrieking call that nests chiefly about eaves of buildings or on cliffs |
chimney swift chimney swallow Chateura pelagica | American swift that nests in e.g. unused chimneys |
tree swift crested swift | birds of southeast Asia and East Indies differing from true swifts in having upright crests and nesting in trees |
T-bar lift T-bar Alpine lift | a surface lift where riders hold a bar and are pulled up the hill on their skis |
peach melba | ice cream and peaches with a liqueur |
Melba toast | very thin crisp brown toast |
Alpine glacier Alpine type of glacier | a glacier that moves down from a high valley |
Melba Dame Nellie Melba Helen Porter Mitchell | Australian operatic soprano (-) |
Ponselle Rosa Ponselle Rosa Melba Ponselle | United States soprano (-) |
Swift Jonathan Swift Dean Swift | an English satirist born in Ireland (-) |
Swift Gustavus Franklin Swift | United States meat-packer who began the use of refrigerated railroad cars (-) |
Alpine fir subalpine fir Abies lasiocarpa | medium-tall timber tree of the Rocky Mountains having a narrowly conic to columnar crown |
Alpine celery pine Phyllocladus alpinus | small shrubby celery pine of New Zealand |
alpine totara Podocarpus nivalis | low wide-spreading coniferous shrub of New Zealand mountains |
Alpine anemone mountain anemone Anemone tetonensis | silky-foliaged herb of the Rocky Mountains with bluish-white flowers |
alpine clover Trifolium alpinum | European mountain clover with fragrant usually pink flowers |
Alpine mouse-ear Arctic mouse-ear Cerastium alpinum | widespread in the Arctic and on mountains in Europe |
alpine coltsfoot Homogyne alpina Tussilago alpina | rhizomatous herb with purpleed flowers suitable for groundcover, sometimes placed in genus Tussilago |
alpine gold alpine hulsea Hulsea algida | low tufted plant having hairy stems each topped by a flower head with short narrow yellow rays, northwestern United States |
alpine goldenrod Solidago multiradiata | goldenrod similar to narrow goldenrod but having bristly hairs on edges of leaf stalks, mountainous regions of western America |
old man of the mountain alpine sunflower Tetraneuris grandiflora Hymenoxys grandiflora | 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 |
alpine bearberry black bearberry Arctostaphylos alpina | deciduous creeping shrub bright red in autumn having black or blue-black berries, alpine and circumpolar |
alpine azalea mountain azalea Loiseleuria procumbens | creeping mat-forming evergreen shrub of high mountain regions of northern hemisphere grown for its rose-pink flowers |
alpine ash mountain oak Eucalyptus delegatensis | tall timber tree with hard heavy pinkish or light brown wood |
Alpine enchanter's nightshade Circaea alpina | an Alpine variety of enchanter's nightshade |
alpine milk vetch Astragalus alpinus | perennial of mountainous areas of Eurasia and North America |
Scotch laburnum Alpine golden chain Laburnum alpinum | an ornamental shrub or tree of the genus Laburnum |
Alpine besseya Besseya alpina | small pale plant with dense spikes of pale bluish-violet flowers, of high cold meadows from Wyoming and Utah to New Mexico |
Alpine lady fern Athyrium distentifolium | a lady fern with deeply cut leaf segments, found in the Rocky Mountains |
Alpine woodsia northern woodsia flowerup fern Woodsia alpina | slender fern of northern North America with shining chestnutolored stipes and bipinnate fronds with usually distinct marginal sori |
alpine clubmoss Lycopodium alpinum | a variety of club moss |
pellagra Alpine scurvy mal de la rosa mal rosso maidism mayidism Saint Ignatius' itch | 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 |
fleet swift | moving very fast, fleet of foot, the fleet scurrying of squirrels, a swift current, swift flight of an arrow, a swift runner |
swift-footed fast-footed | having rapidly moving feet |
alpine | living or growing above the timber line, alpine flowers |
Alpine | relating to the Alps and their inhabitants, Alpine countries, Switzerland, Italy, France, and Germany |
alpine | relating to or characteristic of alps, alpine sports |