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Subalpine vs Whitebark - What's the difference?

subalpine | whitebark |

As an adjective subalpine

is at the foot of the Alps.

As a noun whitebark is

the North American pine species: Pinus albicaulis, found in mountainous and subalpine regions, often as krummholz.

subalpine

English

(wikipedia subalpine)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • At the foot of the Alps
  • At or just below the tree-line

    • whitebark

    English

    (wikipedia whitebark) (Whitebark pine) (Pinus albicaulis)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The North American pine , found in mountainous and subalpine regions, often as krummholz.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 30, author=Charles Petit, title=In the Rockies, Pines Die and Bears Feel It, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=But the seeds of the whitebark pine, the pine nuts, feed Clark’s nutcracker birds; red squirrels, which store the nuts underground; and grizzly bears. }}