Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A sandbar that connects an island to the mainland or to another island.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A sand-reef by which an island is connected with the mainland. See the extract.
Wiktionary
- n. A spit of sand linking an island to the mainland (or to another island), formed by longshore drift.
Etymologies
- From Italian tombolo ("pillow"), from Latin tumulus ("mound"), from tumeō ("I swell"). (Wiktionary)
- Italian, from Latin tumulus, mound; see tumulus. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“To clinch the victory, Valencic won a best-of-five final round, which included a question asking for the Italian name for sediment deposits that connect a shoreline with an offshore island: tombolo.”
““The Word of the Day,” he said, and his voice filled all the rooms of the school, “is tombolo.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tombolo’.
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Landforms
A Cyclopedia of Landforms.
plain, mountain, canyon, cliff, hill, arch, cave, plateau, mesa, butte, chimney, peneplain and 169 more...
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Pet Rocks and Carbon Footprints
Soil samples for stone soup.
palynology, stratigraphy, tse'bit'ai, tse bitai, tse bit ai, bitai, minette, maar, lithosphere, peridotite, gneiss, gabbro and 115 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Naturals
dogtooth violet, adder's-tongue, ribbon fern, breadberry, echinate, stamen, aeolian, boreas, chinook, Eurus, firmament, edentata and 35 more...
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the earth
Planetary chaos: terrain, landscape and geology excluding rocks. (See "the geologist" list for the latter.)
butte, karst, caldera, mesa, laccolith, cwm, crater, alp, precipice, sierra, badlands, prairie and 122 more...
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srboisvert's Words
couverture, poffertjes, naif, endermatic, prepense, aspic, otalgia, curettage,, florid, piffling, pillock, mow and 164 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
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Lay of the Land
all kinds of scapes
steppe, veld, veldt, campo, llano, taiga, krummholz, elfinwood, tundra, sward, lea, heath and 197 more...
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Mangomousse's Favorites :]
sfumato, aardvark, cwm, agog, alpenglow, amok, anomaly, apogee, apricity, balalaika, bibulous, bilious and 87 more...
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4Q2009
ya es hora. hagas..., muckender, runagate, sleeping policeman, slot walking, silver mining, escarpment, gabion, isostasy, permeable groin, riprap, tombolo and 6 more...
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mollusque A sand or gravel bar joining an island to the mainland or another island. Dec 21, 2007