"montane" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈmɒnteɪn/ [Received-Pronunciation], /mɑnˈteɪn/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-montane.wav [Received-Pronunciation], en-us-montane.mp3 [General-American] Forms: more montane [comparative], most montane [superlative]
Rhymes: (General American) -eɪn Etymology: The adjective is derived from Latin montānus (“of or pertaining to a mountain”) + 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. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*men-|id=stand out}}, {{glossary|adjective}} adjective, {{der|en|la|montānus|t=of or pertaining to a mountain}} Latin montānus (“of or pertaining to a mountain”), {{m|en|-ane}} -ane, {{m|en|-an|pos=suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives}} -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives), {{m|la|mōns|t=mount, mountain}} mōns (“mount, mountain”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*men-|t=to stand out, to tower}} Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stand out, to tower”), {{m|la|-ānus|pos=suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’}} -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’), {{glossary|noun}} noun Head templates: {{en-adj}} montane (comparative more montane, superlative most montane)
  1. (ecology) Of, inhabiting, or growing in mountain areas; specifically, the cool, moist upland slopes below the timberline. Categories (topical): Ecology Derived forms: Afromontane, afromontane, altimontane, boreo-montane, intermontane, premontane, submontane Coordinate_terms: alpine, subalpine Translations (of, inhabiting, or growing in mountain areas): 山區的 (Chinese Mandarin), 山区的 (shānqūde) (Chinese Mandarin), 山地の (sanchino) (alt: さんち) (Japanese), montano (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-montane-en-adj-63oO9ud0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ane Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 69 31 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 77 23 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ane: 80 20 Topics: biology, ecology, natural-sciences Related terms: cismontane, montanic [obsolete], montuous [archaic], mount, mountain, mountaineer, mountainous, mountainously, tramontane, transmontane, ultramontane, topographic

Noun

IPA: /ˈmɒnteɪn/ [Received-Pronunciation], /mɑnˈteɪn/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-montane.wav [Received-Pronunciation], en-us-montane.mp3 [General-American] Forms: montanes [plural]
Rhymes: (General American) -eɪn Etymology: The adjective is derived from Latin montānus (“of or pertaining to a mountain”) + 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. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*men-|id=stand out}}, {{glossary|adjective}} adjective, {{der|en|la|montānus|t=of or pertaining to a mountain}} Latin montānus (“of or pertaining to a mountain”), {{m|en|-ane}} -ane, {{m|en|-an|pos=suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives}} -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives), {{m|la|mōns|t=mount, mountain}} mōns (“mount, mountain”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*men-|t=to stand out, to tower}} Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stand out, to tower”), {{m|la|-ānus|pos=suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’}} -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’), {{glossary|noun}} noun Head templates: {{en-noun}} montane (plural montanes)
  1. (ecology) An animal or a plant of a montane habitat. Categories (topical): Ecology Translations (flora and fauna of a montane habitat): regiel [masculine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-montane-en-noun-1bIqH5Ki Topics: biology, ecology, natural-sciences

Inflected forms

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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "[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.",
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          "text": "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. We must therefore divide the Northern zone also into three parts—1, Northern (restricted); 2, Northern-montane; and 3, Montane only.",
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          "text": "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. The difference between the equatorial rain-forest of the basal region on the one hand, and the tropical forest of the lower montane region on the other, is confined to the systematic composition. In temperate montane formations, on the contrary, the lower temperature is reflected in purely oecological characteristics in the plant-life and impresses upon the formations the stamp of those of higher latitudes.",
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          "text": "The temperatures are extremely constant and low as compared with those in the lowlands, although very rarely so low as to make frost possible, and the rainfall is abundant at all seasons. The Blue Mountain Region is, therefore, a tropical montane region, in the terms of [Andreas Franz Wilhelm] Schimper, lying above the hot lowlands and not attaining to a sufficient altitude for alpine influences to come into full play.",
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          "ref": "1999, Matt Ridley, Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, London: Fourth Estate, HarperCollins; paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper Perennial, 2000, page 27",
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          "ref": "2000, M. Kappelle, M. E. Juárez, “Case Study: Mountain Forests, Biodiversity and People in Costa Rica”, in M. F. Price, N. Butt, editors, Forests in Sustainable Mountain Development: A State of Knowledge Report for 2000 (IUFRO Research Series; 5), Wallingford, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: CABI Publishing, page 46",
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          "text": "At lower elevations, montane oak forests typically grade into cove forests, oak forests, or montane pine forests and woodlands. At higher elevations and in more protected sites, northern hardwood forests replace the montane oak forests. Montane oak forests may also grade directly into spruce-fir forests on south-facing slopes.",
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      "word": "tramontane"
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          "ref": "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 Hardwicke, […], →OCLC, page 12",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "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 Botany, British and Foreign, volume IX, London: Taylor and Co., […], →OCLC, page 261",
          "text": "[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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1875 March 4, Thomas Comber, “Geographical Statistics of the Extra-British European Flora”, in Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, volume III (Third Series), Liverpool, Lancashire: Adam Holden, […], →OCLC, page 15",
          "text": "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. We must therefore divide the Northern zone also into three parts—1, Northern (restricted); 2, Northern-montane; and 3, Montane only.",
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        {
          "ref": "1903, A[ndreas] F[ranz] W[ilhelm] Schimper, “Mountain Regions in the Tropics”, in William R. Fisher, transl., edited by Percy Groom and Isaac Bayley Balfour, Plant-geography upon a Physiological Basis … The Authorized English Translation, Oxford, Oxfordshire: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, section I (General Considerations), page 721",
          "text": "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. The difference between the equatorial rain-forest of the basal region on the one hand, and the tropical forest of the lower montane region on the other, is confined to the systematic composition. In temperate montane formations, on the contrary, the lower temperature is reflected in purely oecological characteristics in the plant-life and impresses upon the formations the stamp of those of higher latitudes.",
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          "ref": "1914, Forrest Shreve, “The Physical Features of the Rain-forest Region”, in A Montane Rain-forest: A Contribution to the Physiological Plant Geography of Jamaica (Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication; no. 199), Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, →OCLC, page 8",
          "text": "The temperatures are extremely constant and low as compared with those in the lowlands, although very rarely so low as to make frost possible, and the rainfall is abundant at all seasons. The Blue Mountain Region is, therefore, a tropical montane region, in the terms of [Andreas Franz Wilhelm] Schimper, lying above the hot lowlands and not attaining to a sufficient altitude for alpine influences to come into full play.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "1983, Jaclyn H. Wolfheim, “Indriidae: Avahi, Indris, and Sifakas”, in Primates of the World: Distribution, Abundance, and Conservation, Seattle, Wash.: University of Washington Press, page 121",
          "text": "I[ndri] indri is a forest species, found in humid montane rain forest [...]. It has been observed as high as 1,300 m elevation [...].",
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          "ref": "1999, Matt Ridley, Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, London: Fourth Estate, HarperCollins; paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper Perennial, 2000, page 27",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2000, M. Kappelle, M. E. Juárez, “Case Study: Mountain Forests, Biodiversity and People in Costa Rica”, in M. F. Price, N. Butt, editors, Forests in Sustainable Mountain Development: A State of Knowledge Report for 2000 (IUFRO Research Series; 5), Wallingford, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: CABI Publishing, page 46",
          "text": "The key to sustainable tropical montane cloud forest land management lies in actively involving local rural populations in decision-taking processes relating to research, training, development and conservation strategies and initiatives.",
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          "ref": "2014, Stephanie B. Jeffries, Thomas R. Wentworth, “Natural Community Overviews”, in Exploring Southern Appalachian Forests: An Ecological Guide to 30 Great Hikes in the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia (A Southern Gateways Guide), Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, page 22",
          "text": "At lower elevations, montane oak forests typically grade into cove forests, oak forests, or montane pine forests and woodlands. At higher elevations and in more protected sites, northern hardwood forests replace the montane oak forests. Montane oak forests may also grade directly into spruce-fir forests on south-facing slopes.",
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