Meaning of oreal | Babel Free

Definitions

Inhabiting high mountains.

dated, not-comparable, rare

Examples

“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?”

“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.”

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