Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A long, relatively narrow island running parallel to the mainland, built up by the action of waves and currents and serving to protect the coast from erosion by surf and tidal surges.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. a long narrow sandy island (wider than a reef) running parallel to the shore
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ENVI - Collocations ABC
An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
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SCIE - noun-noun collocations
The collocations below consist of nouns only. Noun-noun collocations are extremely frequent in science (just think of the names of species, chemical compounds or "scientist+invention" type collocat...
dust bowl, walking stick, rain forest, cherry tree, sugar maple, asteroid belt, boll weevil, weather forecast, sulphur dioxide, lake trout, heart rate, rainbow trout and 480 more...
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Geographical Fun
the Earth's geographic beauty & diversity.
arroyo, atoll, badlands, barrier island, berm, box canyon, cataract, chasm, escarpment, estuary, grotto, gulch and 54 more...
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