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TIMBERLINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does timberline mean?
• TIMBERLINE (noun)
The noun TIMBERLINE has 1 sense:
1. line marking the upper limit of tree growth in mountains or northern latitudes
Familiarity information: TIMBERLINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Line marking the upper limit of tree growth in mountains or northern latitudes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
timber line; timberline; tree line
Hypernyms ("timberline" is a kind of...):
line (a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent)
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