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oreal

oreal adjective: inhabiting high mountains.

Adjective

oreal (not comparable)

  1. (dated, rare) Inhabiting high mountains.
    • Equatorial Andean butterfly faunas are both absolutely and relatively impoverished in comparison to both temperate oreal (high-mountain) faunas and adjacent lowland ones. Why should this be so?1994, Arthur M Shapiro, Why are there so few butterflies in the high Andes?, volume 31, page 1
    • Another group with a high incidence of wing reduction in the female sex is that of the oreal species, i.e. species that inhabit high mountains above the tree line.1991, British Museum (Natural History), Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology, volume 60 No 2, page 254

Questions about oreal

What does oreal mean?
Oreal means inhabiting high mountains.
What part of speech is oreal?
Oreal is an adjective.

Words near oreal in the dictionary

  1. ore-bulk-oil carriers
  2. Ore.
  3. oread
  4. oreades
  5. oreads
  6. oreal
  7. oreasterid
  8. oreasterids
  9. oreasteroside
  10. Orebaugh
  11. Orebaughs

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