mist-belt

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mist-belt (plural mist-belts)

  1. Alternative form of mist belt
    • 2002, John M. Allen, Growing Up White in Apartheid South Africa, →ISBN, page 90:
      The mist-belt is clearly visible from a few miles outside Swakopmund, and once in the town itself, the temperature drops from desert-dry high-80's or more to damp and clinging mid-50's.
    • 2004, Philip Harrison, Ecotravel, →ISBN:
      The blue swallow, which breeds in the grasslands mist-belt along the southem African eastem escarpment, is one of the world's most vulnerable avifaunal species, largely because much of its habitat has been given over to commercial forestry.
    • 2015, Muriel Spark, Robinson, →ISBN:
      One could keep a fire alight more easily at a level above the mist-belt; one could, if necessary, survive, and bed down on bracken from these lower woodlands.