nonalpine

Adjective

nonalpine (not comparable)

1. Not alpine.
   • Alpine plants also achieve maximum photosyntetic rates at cooler temperatures than nonalpine species and many start growing even before snowdrifts melt .2002, Joyce Gellhorn, Song of the Alpine, page 151
   • It year-round flow is more consistent than that of most rivers, largely because of a naturally balanced discharge regime: its alpine tributaries (those upstream, or south, of Basel) shed their waters during the warm summer months when the snow meltoff is highest, where its nonalpine tributaries...2009, Edmund Burke, Kenneth Pomeranz, The Environment and World History, page 166