What is "treeline"

Usage examples of "treeline".

Jaelle was careful not to be caught above the treeline after dark, but at night, cuddled in their doubled sleeping bags for warmth, Magda shivered at the savage shrilling cry of banshees in the frozen passes, a cry which could, she remembered, paralyze any prey within range.

If some lichen or other is in the wrong part of its life cycle, there is some kind of population crash among ice-rabbits, the she-rabbits are barren, and the banshees starve, so that they come down below the treeline and look for larger prey.

Opening the tin, she took two biscuits and walked toward the treeline in hopes of 130 imaing some privacy.

Then headlights appeared out of the treeline, heading toward the house.

Checking back every thirty feet as I crossed the frozen lake, after several minutes I saw headlights in the darkness, heading away from the house and back toward the treeline.

The shadows thrown by the headlights caused even more confusion as bodies moved within the treeline.

Immediately one of the gunships at the rear of their formation dove, curved back the way they had come in a centrifugally perfect arc, and raked the treeline with rocket and minigun fire.

Above treeline we have incredible blooms of army cutworm moths June through September.

Surely enough, when the sun stood a thick finger's breadth above the treeline, round and orange, the great doors swung slowly open.

Turn your back for a moment and they may well organize a Maypole dance and, frankly, there's no option then but to try and make it to the treeline.

Flickers of tan and brown camouflage flashed through the treelines ahead of him.

Golden sunlight streamed down upon the mountainsides, revealing treelines, sparkling, slender cascades of water.

If we can force them to run this natural gauntlet, with the Elves in the treelines sniping at them all the way, we might do it.

The fields, the far-flung quilt of treelines over the hills, giant hermit oaks, swollen and crooked with vegetal muscle!