Usually means: Stunted, gnarled trees at timberline.
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▸ noun:  Dense low matted bushes at the tree-line.

Similar:
elfin wood, elfinwood, dense, brushwood, moosewood, undergrowth, undershrub, shrub line, thornscrub, underbrush, more...

Opposite:
treeline, timberline, forest line

Types:
alpine, dwarf, subalpine, arctic, more...

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Similar:
elfin wood, elfinwood, dense, brushwood, moosewood, undergrowth, undershrub, shrub line, thornscrub, underbrush, more...

Opposite:
treeline, timberline, forest line

Types:
alpine, dwarf, subalpine, arctic, more...



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