orealとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

oreal (not comparable)

1. (dated, rare, ecology) Inhabiting high mountains.
   • 1994, Arthur M Shapiro, Why are there so few butterflies in the high Andes?‎, volume 31, page 1:

     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?

   • 1991, British Museum (Natural History), Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology‎, volume 60 No 2, page 254:

     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.