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shelterbelt

shelterbelt noun: a row of trees that acts as a windbreak.

shelterbelt: a row of trees that acts as a windbreak
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Noun

shelterbelt (plural shelterbelts)

  1. A row of trees that acts as a windbreak.
    • “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
    • 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

Forms of shelterbelt

pluralshelterbelts
alternative formshelter belt

Origin of shelterbelt

From shelter + belt.

Words formed from shelterbelt

Questions about shelterbelt

What does shelterbelt mean?
Shelterbelt means a row of trees that acts as a windbreak.
What part of speech is shelterbelt?
Shelterbelt is a noun.
What is the plural of shelterbelt?
The plural of shelterbelt is shelterbelts.

Words near shelterbelt in the dictionary

  1. shelter-halves
  2. shelter-in-place
  3. shelterable
  4. shelterage
  5. shelterages
  6. shelterbelt
  7. shelterbelted
  8. shelterbelts
  9. sheltercraft
  10. sheltered
  11. sheltered in place

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