mist-belt

See also: mistbelt and mist belt

English

Noun

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.