timberline

Examples

• All

• The timberline is about 1,000 feet lower than that on other mountains in New England.

  Academic text (2011)

• We didn't even make it above the timberline When it started to come down.

  Tea and Sympathy (1956)

• The fat deer had chased the new growth far up the timberline.

  Fiction book (1994)

• This pine often forms pure stands at timberline in sites too cold, dry, and windy for any other tree.

  Academic text (1998)

• The timberline of the Gallatin National Forest, with its Reserve range where the sheep can graze come July, stands behind the cabin another couple of miles, mainly up.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Today's grazing territory is from the gulch on up the flank of Hatfield Mountain toward the timberline, then down again.

  Fiction book (1993)

• The train emerges from a sea of quaking aspen at the 11,578-foot level, into the barren stretches of the timberline.

  Academic text (1994)

• On a clear day, the view from the timberline shows the trees below and the bare rock above.

• The hikers set up camp just below the timberline to enjoy the cool mountain air.

• As we ascended the mountain, we noticed that the trees began to thin out near the timberline.

Synonyms

T

tree line

vstimberline

9 5.1

The highest level on a mountain or near the poles where trees stop growing

treats it as a location defined by altitude or latitude not by cause

T

treeline

vstimberline

• Specialized

1 4.0

The highest or most northern place where trees grow

is framed as an imaginary line across mountains and northern regions

T

timber line

vstimberline

• Specialized

6.3

A high place on a mountain above which trees cannot grow because it is too cold

is framed as an imaginary boundary without stressing specific causes

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology