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TIMBERLINE
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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 ("timberline" is a kind of...):
line (a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent)