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ALPIN
Boy/Male
Scottish
Son of Alpine.
Male
English
Scottish Anglicized form of Gaelic Ailpein, possibly ALPIN means "white."Â
Surname or Lastname
Southern French and German
Southern French and German : from Occitan astor ‘goshawk’ (from Latin acceptor, variant of accipiter ‘hawk’), used as a nickname characterizing a predacious or otherwise hawklike man. The name was taken to southwestern Germany by 17th-century Waldensian refugees from their Alpine valleys above Italian Piedmont.English : variant spelling of Aster.Astor is the name of a famous American family of industrialists and newspaper owners. John Jacob Astor I (1763–1848) was born at Walldorf near Heidelberg, Germany, the son of a butcher. He followed his brother Henry to New York and made a fortune in the fur trade, which was greatly increased by his descendants in industry, hotels, and newspapers. They built the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. The great-grandson of John Jacob I, William Waldorf Astor (1848–1919), moved to England in 1890, becoming an influential newspaper proprietor and taking British citizenship in 1899. In 1917 he was created Viscount Astor of Hever. His son, the 2nd Viscount (1879–1952), married Nancy Shaw (née Langhorne) (1879–1964), daughter of a VA planter. She became the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons as a member of Parliament.
Boy/Male
Scottish
Son of Alpine.
Male
English
English name, probably derived from the vocabulary word alpine, ALPINE means "of the Swiss Alps."
Girl/Female
Scottish
Blond.
Boy/Male
Scottish
Blond.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : occupational name for an assayer, from an agent derivative of Middle English, Old French ga(u)ge ‘measure’ (see Gage).German : probably a topographic name from Tyrolean Gagen ‘alpine dairy hut’.
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Like the Alps; lofty.
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The Bartsia alpina, a low purple-flowered herb of Europe.
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A white, crystalline, bitter substance, regarded as a glucoside, and extracted from Daphne mezereum and D. alpina.
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An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family (Epimedium alpinum), having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific.
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That which is elevated; an eminence; a hill or mountain; as, Alpine heights.
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Of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain; as, Alpine snows; Alpine plants.
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A climber of the Alps.
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The pungent aromatic rhizome or tuber of certain East Indian or Chinese species of Alpinia (A. Galanga and A. officinarum) and of the Kaempferia Galanga), -- all of the Ginger family.
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Of or pertaining to the Helvetii, the ancient inhabitant of the Alps, now Switzerland, or to the modern states and inhabitant of the Alpine regions; as, the Helvetic confederacy; Helvetic states.
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A band or area of growth encircling anything; as, a zone of evergreens on a mountain; the zone of animal or vegetable life in the ocean around an island or a continent; the Alpine zone, that part of mountains which is above the limit of tree growth.
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Growing in Alpine regions.
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A plant of the genus Soldanella, low Alpine herbs of the Primrose family.
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A bird of the Crow family (Fregilus graculus) of Europe. It is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough.
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A European mountain trout (Salvelinus alpinus); -- called also Bavarian charr.
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A species of sandpiper (Tringa alpina); -- called also churr, dorbie, grass bird, and red-backed sandpiper. It is found both in Europe and America.
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A little, perennial, white, woolly plant (Leontopodium alpinum), growing at high elevations in the Alps.