shelterbelt en · NOUN
Etymology
From shelter + belt.
Meanings
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A row of trees that acts as a windbreak.
And then the engines shifted up a note and we began to descend, coming in over a wide plain carved into geometric shapes by lines of dark shelterbelt and long straight roads with their ant hordes of cars and trucks.
2015, Fiona Farrell, The Villa at the Edge of the Empire, →ISBN, page 52:“The shelterbelts here," explained 53-year-old Ma Shoushou, head of the Bayannur League sand-protection station, “are only part of a great network of shelterbelts planted in 320 counties and banners stretching over 11 provinces and autonomous regions in China’s north, northeast and northwest.
1982 January, “Fighting Back the Deserts”, in China Reconstructs, China Welfare Institute, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40:Now derelict, it is surrounded by a shelterbelt of ancient sycamore trees.
2019, Alan Staniforth, Cleveland Way, page 36:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| shelterbelts | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| shelter belt | alternative | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Deriveds
Hypernyms
belt · row · green belt
Relateds
shelterlessness · exposure · unprotectedness
Translations (4)
ko 방풍림 (Translations) · ja 防風林 (Translations) · ru лесополоса́ (Translations) · mi pāhauhau (Translations)