embayment
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]embayment (plural embayments)
- A bay. (the water)
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 121:
- The path climbed along a wall of purple sandstone above an embayment and in the sunlit shadows below him he could see the long cataphracted forms of gars lying in a kind of electric repose among the reeds.
- The shoreline of a bay, an indentation in a shoreline. (the land, not the water)
- A topographical feature that used to be a bay, like the Mississippi embayment.
- The process by which a bay is formed.
Translations
[edit]shoreline
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topographical feature that used to be a bay
process by which a bay is formed