shelterbelt

English

Etymology

shelter +‎ belt

Noun

shelterbelt (plural shelterbelts)

  1. A row of trees that acts as a windbreak
    • 2015, Fiona Farrell, The Villa at the Edge of the Empire, →ISBN, page 52:
      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.

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