trackway
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- noun
- /ˈtrækˌweɪ/
- A dry spell has turned dirt roads into arid trackways, but hints of autumn's cool breezes already blow from the north, stealing beneath the back of my coat.
- dinosaur trackways
- fossil trackways
Examples
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The Voyageur rolled down Howard Street as if that bumpy, potholed mess had become a clean steel trackway.
Fiction book (1998) -
Trackways have now confirmed the presence of early tetrapods in Ireland and even in Australia.
Academic text (2006) -
This painting is based on a trackway found in Colorado.
Academic text (1991) -
Paleontology was essentially detective work, searching for clues in the fossil bones and the trackways of the long-vanished giants.
Fiction book (1990) -
They studied trackways, fossil footprints left in mud, and concluded that dinosaurs ran as fast as a man; such activity implied warm blood.
Fiction book (1990) -
Before me was a slab of fossilized mud labeled "Bird Trackways with Raindrop Impressions."
Academic text (2010) -
I'd seen fossil footprints and trackways many times before but never the turned-to-stone concave impressions of raindrops.
Academic text (2010) -
Fossil footprints, sometimes arrayed in vast trackways consisting of hundreds or thousands of prints, attest to the herding behavior of sauropods.
Academic text (1991) -
The trackway was clearly visible on the forest floor, showing where deer had passed through.
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Archaeologists discovered a trackway that indicated a prehistoric village had once existed in the area.
Synonyms
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2.2
A long metal or rubber band with wheels that helps heavy vehicles move over soft ground
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1.0
A way or track that people and things move along for travel
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1.4
A visible sign left where a person or animal has passed
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2.7
A track made by people or animals that is worn down
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1.9
A narrow path for people to walk on away from roads
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A long narrow groove in the ground made by wheels
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A racing track for cars or motorcycles with a surface of packed earth rather than pavement
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A path that birds or animals follow when they move between places each year
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A rough path made by cart wheels
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3.9
A narrow path through woods or fields made by deer walking
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A track that guides vehicles like trams and buses
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A path that many people or vehicles use regularly
Footprints or marks left on the ground by people and animals
A rough road in the countryside for carts
The track or footprint an animal leaves in soft ground
An old narrow path that runs along the edge of a field or cliff
How Direct
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Trackway comes from two simple words: track 'mark left by a foot or wheel' and way 'path'. So a trackway is literally a path made of tracks — a line of marks that shows where animals, people, or vehicles moved.