timberline
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See also: timber line
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timberline (plural timberlines)
- The height or limit beyond which trees do not grow in mountainous or Arctic regions.
- Synonym: tree line
- 1915 April, Enos A. Mills, “Wild Mountain Sheep”, in The Rocky Mountain Wonderland, Houghton Mifflin, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 37:
- Most flocks in the Sierra and the Rocky Mountains live above the timber-line and at an altitude of twelve thousand feet.
Translations[edit]
tree line — see tree line