coastal plain
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- noun
- /ˈkoʊstəl pleɪn/
:
llanura costera
- The coastal plain is home to diverse ecosystems and is crucial for local agriculture.
- Atlantic coastal plain
- North Carolina coastal plain
- southern coastal plain
Examples
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The loss of mesic hardwood forests on the North Carolina coastal plain has attracted little notice.
Academic text (1994) -
There is, in a city built on a flat coastal plain, a street called "Mount Houston Road."
Academic text (2004) -
Next to that coastal plain is a region of low mountains.
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Eventually, a pine forest came to dominate much of the coastal plain.
Academic text (1995) -
A country does not have to feature a broad and shallow coastal plain to qualify for the list.
Academic text (1993) -
On our last day in the river, we paddled out of the mountains and onto the coastal plain.
Academic text (2003) -
All the while, villages across Galilee and the coastal plain brace for raids.
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Greene County is a flat coastal plain tending gradually toward the Atlantic, less than one hundred miles away.
Fiction book (2000) -
Loblolly pine is a typical pioneer tree species in old-field succession on the southeastern coastal plain.
Academic text (2007) -
It's part of a first-order agricultural watershed with a well-defined riparian zone in the Maryland coastal plain.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
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Land near the sea with beaches and often cliffs
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an area of flat, low-lying land adjacent to a sea coast' is directly and compositionally derived from 'coastal' (pertaining to the sea coast) + 'plain' (a flat area). This adjective+noun construction is literal and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the phrase.
Etymology
Coastal plain shows the idea: a flat plain by the coastal area, where land meets the sea and is often low and wet. So it means 'an area of flat, low land next to the sea'.