treeline
2
3.5
- noun
- /ˈtriːlaɪn/
:
línea de árboles
- Near the treeline, the wolf turns, glances back at Eric, and then disappears into the forest.
- edge of the treeline
- distant treeline
Examples
-
In the case of Graybill, the treeline has probably shifted upslope tens to hundreds of meters since the 1960s.
Blog text (17) -
From Idaho Springs, the highway passes shallow Echo Lake and breaks out of treeline into a rocky, lunar landscape.
Blog text (25) -
"What do you mean?" His attention shifted to the treeline.
Fiction book (1996) -
We stopped inside the shadows of the treeline.
Fiction book (1990) -
On the other side of the field, a treeline stretched across the horizon.
Blog text (17) -
The bears, as usual, waited in the brush at the distant treeline.
Fiction book (1990) -
On the other side of the field, a treeline stretched across the horizon.
-
Edge Road was so named because it traced the treeline of the Borderlands State Forest.
-
Past that treeline, there's a road that goes through the mountains to Quebec.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word treeline is made of tree and line, so imagine a 'line' of trees that marks the 'edge' of a field or property. That's why a treeline is a row of trees used as a boundary.