TIMBER LINE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Line marking the upper limit of tree growth in mountains or northern latitudes

Synonyms:

timber line; timberline; tree line

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("timber line" is a kind of...):

line (a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent)

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