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adjectiveoreal (not comparable)
- datednot comparablerarebiologyInhabiting high mountains.
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 2541 more example
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
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