montane

montane
(mon-ta-n') adj. f.
Terme d'histoire naturelle. Qui appartient aux montagnes.
   Les espèces montanes, Arch. des miss. scient. 2e série, t. III, p. 140.
   Lat. montanus, de mons, mont.

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