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n. - Hedge or fence of trees designed to lessen the force of the wind and reduce erosion.

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  • Mourning doves have become abundant in shelterbelt plantings.
  • It will provide satisfactory but somewhat open shelterbelt protection.
  • Baumgardner bogs down in a hellish tangle of 10-foot-tall shelterbelt.
  • The tree is used extensively as a shade or shelterbelt tree with a great tolerance of arid and harsh sites.
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