timber line

1. 1.

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

   Synonymstimberlinetree line

   Broaderline

Questions about timber line

What does timber line mean?

timber line means "line marking the upper limit of tree growth in mountains or northern latitudes".

What is another word for timber line?

Close synonyms include timberline, tree line. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is timber line a common word?

timber line is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.