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montane

Syllables: mont·ane/ˈmɒnteɪn//mɑnˈteɪn/

montane adjective: of, inhabiting, or growing in mountain areas; specifically, the cool, moist upland slopes below the timberline.

Adjective

montane (comparative more montane, superlative most montane)

  1. Of, inhabiting, or growing in mountain areas; specifically, the cool, moist upland slopes below the timberline.
    • This plant evidently occupies, like V. sabulosa and V. Curtisii, an intermediate position between lutea and tricolor; and, as I have indicated already, it is a montane, not an agrestal plant. Jordan compares it to V. vivariensis, which is also a montane plant, between V. tricolor and V. lutea.1863 January, J[ohn] G[ilbert] Baker, “On Some of the British Pansies, Agrestal and Montane”, in [Berthold Carl Seemann], editor, The Journal of Botany, British and Foreign, volume I, London: Robert...
    • [T]he upper part of these peaks is very bare and monotonous, and almost destitute of damp precipice; and I know of only seven Montane species that grow there above 650 yards.1871 January 1, J[ohn] G[ilbert] Baker, “On the Dispersion of Montane Plants over Hills of the North of England”, in Berthold [Carl] Seemann, J. G. Baker, H[enry] Trimen, editors, The Journal of...
    Synonyms:
    alpine

Noun

montane (plural montanes)

  1. An animal or a plant of a montane habitat.
    • The true Montanes comprise those species, of unmistakably Alpine, Scottish, or Highland type, which not merely with us but elsewhere throughout Britain are characteristic of high latitudes and altitudes—of mountain regions only.1888, Frederic Arnold Lees, “Climatology”, in The Flora of West Yorkshire: With a Sketch of the Climatology and Lithology in Connection therewith (Botanical Series of the Transactions of the...
    • The wintergreens, and northern montanes such as Linnaea have their stronghold in these pinewoods and some of their rarity may be due to the reduction in the extent of the forest.2005, Peter Taylor, “Restoring Ecological Processes: Regeneration of the Core Vegetation”, in Beyond Conservation: A Wildland Strategy, London; Sterling, Va.: Earthscan, →ISBN, page 84

montane meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Kannada

montane in Tamil

மலைப்பகுதியில் வாழ்கிற

montane in Urdu

کوہی, پہاڑی

montane in Kannada

ಮಲೆನಾಡಿನ, ಪರ್ವತಪ್ರದೇಶದ, ಗುಡ್ಡಗಾಡಿನ, ಮಲೆನಿವಾಸಿ, ಪರ್ವತವಾಸಿ, ಗುಡ್ಡಗಾಡುಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ವಾಸಿಸುವ

Examples of montane in a sentence

  • With a like lower limit of level there are found on hills numerous Sub-alpine or Montane plants, which do not grow in the North.1875 March 4, Thomas Comber, “Geographical Statistics of the Extra-British European Flora”, in Transactions of the Historic Society of...
  • The montane region in its lower belts has, at the equator, a still tropical although not equatorial character, but near the two tropics it has from the first a temperate character.1903, A[ndreas] F[ranz] W[ilhelm] Schimper, “Mountain Regions in the Tropics”, in William R. Fisher, transl., edited by Percy Groom and...
  • I[ndri] indri is a forest species, found in humid montane rain forest [...].1983, Jaclyn H. Wolfheim, “Indriidae: Avahi, Indris, and Sifakas”, in Primates of the World: Distribution, Abundance, and Conservation...
  • The gorilla's ancestor had probably taken to the montane forests of a string of central African volcanoes, cutting itself off from the genes of other apes.1999, Matt Ridley, Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, London: Fourth Estate, HarperCollins, →ISBN; paperback edition...

Synonyms of montane

Antonyms

Forms of montane

Adjective
comparativemore montane
superlativemost montane
Noun
pluralmontanes

Origin of montane

The adjective is derived from Latin montānus (“of or pertaining to a mountain”). Synchronically, it can be seen to have the suffix English -ane (variant of -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives)). Montānus is derived from mōns (“mount, mountain”) (from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stand out, to tower”)) + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’). The noun is probably derived from the adjective.

Words formed from montane

Questions about montane

What does montane mean?
Montane means of, inhabiting, or growing in mountain areas; specifically, the cool, moist upland slopes below the timberline.
What is montane in Tamil?
Montane in Tamil is மலைப்பகுதியில் வாழ்கிற. See Montane meaning in Tamil.
How do you use montane in a sentence?
With a like lower limit of level there are found on hills numerous Sub-alpine or Montane plants, which do not grow in the North.
What part of speech is montane?
Montane can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce montane?
Montane is pronounced /ˈmɒnteɪn/ (UK).

Words near montane in the dictionary

  1. Montanaro
  2. Montanaros
  3. Montanas
  4. montanate
  5. montanates
  6. montane
  7. montanes
  8. Montanez
  9. Montanezes
  10. Montanha
  11. Montanian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: montane (page history and authors); montane (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); montane (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); montane (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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