embayment
- noun
- /ɪmˈbeɪmənt/
- The boat glided smoothly into the sheltered embayment, providing a perfect spot for our picnic.
- windward embayment
Examples
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Because of this, windward embayments tend to support more estuarine fisheries than leeward areas.
Academic text (1993) -
Reefs and their fauna may also be found within embayments and estuaries in Hawaii.
Academic text (1993) -
We entered that, and the terrain immediately opened back out into a round embayment perhaps a quarter-mile across.
Fiction book (1993) -
We had driven our wagon out of the first narrow opening and into the wide embayment when I saw a cloud of dust coming out of a side path.
Fiction book (1993) -
Schools of adults and juveniles are targeted by fishermen as they enter and leave embayments.
Academic text (1993) -
Landscapes with nonpyrogenic tendencies, in particular the Mississippi embayment and the northern hardwood region, displayed little change.
Academic text (2008) -
The demarcations between two hunting territories were bodies of water, including lakes, river systems, estuaries, or embayments.
Academic text (2018) -
The Caspian's outlet to Kara-Bogaz-Gol, a large shallow eastern embayment where large quantities of water evaporated, was actually dammed.
Academic text (1996) -
Kaneohe is a windward embayment containing a sandbar and many patch and fringing reefs.
Academic text (1993) -
The double-mountain formation creates two natural embayments, windward Kahului and leeward Ma'alaea Bay.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
A part of the sea partly surrounded by land
A small bay along a coast where the land curves inward
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
embayment = embay (transparent) = em + bay + embay + ment
Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ment' to the verb 'embay' (em- + bay), so the result meaning is a straightforward nominalization of 'embay'.
Etymology
Embayment breaks into em- ('in' or 'into') + bay + -ment, so it literally means a part of the coast 'made into a bay'. So an embayment is a bay-like indentation of the shoreline that shelters water.