TIMBER LINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does timber line mean? 

• TIMBER LINE (noun)
  The noun TIMBER LINE has 1 sense:

1. line marking the upper limit of tree growth in mountains or northern latitudes

  Familiarity information: TIMBER LINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIMBER LINE (noun)

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

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

 Context examples 

It was a hard day’s run, up the Cañon, through Sheep Camp, past the Scales and the timber line, across glaciers and snowdrifts hundreds of feet deep, and over the great Chilcoot Divide, which stands between the salt water and the fresh and guards forbiddingly the sad and lonely North.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

They went across divides in summer blizzards, shivered under the midnight sun on naked mountains between the timber line and the eternal snows, dropped into summer valleys amid swarming gnats and flies, and in the shadows of glaciers picked strawberries and flowers as ripe and fair as any the Southland could boast.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)