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mist belt

mist belt noun: a region at middle altitude that is regularly misty, as opposed to the areas above and below.

Noun

mist belt (plural mist belts)

  1. A region at middle altitude that is regularly misty, as opposed to the areas above and below.
    • In the mountains that run parallel to the SW shores of the Red Sea from S.E. Egypt to the “Horn” of Africa, Cape Gardafui (i.e. over a distance of some 2,650 km), there is a more or less continuous mist belt between 600 and 1,800 m elevation, depending on local conditions.2008, Henry N. Houérou, Bioclimatology and Biogeography of Africa, →ISBN, page 52
    • Here the transition from the desert vegetation of the plains to the lush vegetation of the mist belts is abrupt.2011, Sharon E. Nicholson, Dryland Climatology, →ISBN, page 207

Examples of mist belt in a sentence

  • This mist belt extends all the way to Cape Gaddafui, further south, in Somalia, this mist belt is the exclusive habitat of Frankincense trees (Boswellia carteri and B. freeri).2012, Henry N. Le Houerou, The Grazing Land Ecosystems of the African Sahel, →ISBN, page 7:
  • We have only sometimes mist but there is no mist belt as on the Canary Islands.2012, Frank Klötzli, Gian-Reto Walther, Conference on Recent Shifts in Vegetation Boundaries of Deciduous Forests, Especially Due to...

Forms of mist belt

pluralmist belts
alternative formmistbelt
alternative formmist-belt

Questions about mist belt

What does mist belt mean?
Mist belt means a region at middle altitude that is regularly misty, as opposed to the areas above and below.
How do you use mist belt in a sentence?
This mist belt extends all the way to Cape Gaddafui, further south, in Somalia, this mist belt is the exclusive habitat of Frankincense trees (Boswellia carteri and B. freeri).
What part of speech is mist belt?
Mist belt is a noun.
What is the plural of mist belt?
The plural of mist belt is mist belts.

Words near mist belt in the dictionary

  1. missynthesize
  2. missynthesized
  3. missynthesizes
  4. missynthesizing
  5. mist
  6. mist belt
  7. mist belts
  8. mist cap
  9. mist caps
  10. mist coat
  11. mist coats

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