A row or series of trees. Obsolete.
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释义 | the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > belt or line of trees (10) suitc1450 A row or series of trees. Obsolete. neck of the woods1780 Originally U.S. A narrow stretch of wood, pasture, ice, etc. Now usually in neck of the woods: a settlement in wooded country, or a small or… droke1822 Newfoundland. A belt, clump, or grove (of trees). tree-line1893 (a) the line or level on a mountain above which no trees grow (cf. snow-line, n.); (b) a row of trees; the edge of a wood. fringing forest1903 That fringes. fringing forest: see quot. 1926; fringing reef: see quot. 1878. gallery forest1920 = fringing forest at fringing, adj. tree-belt1962 Subcategories:— serving as screen or border (3) |
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