montane

Plural: montanes

Adjective

of or inhabiting mountainous regions
- "montane flowers"

Adj

Of, inhabiting, or growing in mountain areas; specifically, the cool, moist upland slopes below the timberline.

Noun

The lower vegetation belt of a mountain region.
An animal or a plant of a montane habitat.

Examples

The word ’MONTANE’ stood tall, like a mountain range on the Scrabble board.

Origin / Etymology

The adjective is derived from Latin montānus (“of or pertaining to a mountain”) + English -ane (variant of -an (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives)). Montānus is derived from mōns (“mount, mountain”) (from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stand out, to tower”)) + -ānus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’).
The noun is probably derived from the adjective.

Scrabble Score: 9

montane: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
montane: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
montane: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

montane: valid Words With Friends Word