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snowline

nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

The snowline is the height above which snow lies all year. Above the snowline.

It sits far lower near the poles and above five thousand metres at the equator. The snowline has been rising measurably for decades, which is easy to photograph.

Steve Hicks · CC BY 2.0

Definitions of snowline

  1. 1nounsnowlineThe height above which snow lies all year.C1

    “The hut was just below the snowline.”

snowline is a line.

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snowline in the wild

  • The rufous-bellied seedsnipe ranges as far up as to the snowline.

    Seedsnipe

  • The snowline in the area lies at 5,800 metres altitude at Cumbre del Laudo.

    Sierra Nevada de Lagunas Bravas

  • The minimum altitude that firn accumulates on a glacier is called the firn limit, firn line or snowline.

    Firn

  • Pyrola minor, known by the common names snowline wintergreen, lesser wintergreen, and common wintergreen, is a plant species of the genus Pyrola.

    Pyrola minor

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.