dune
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2.7
- noun
- /duːn/
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duna
- Once we clear the escarpment and the great salt plains, we'll take the bikes over the dunes all the way.
- sand dunes
- beaches and dunes
- coastal dunes
We've already mentioned going to the Long Dune and what happens in winter.
- We've already mentioned going to the Long Dune and what happens in winter.
- I remember like, was we we got there, we were in the sand dunes filming Jasmine.
- They build giant dunes right there.
- Later, I saw a boy, aroused and elated, beckoning from a dune.
- He says, that's why you're going up and down those dunes.
- Not, not desert like you think of the Sahara with sort of like rolling sand dunes.
- Complexity, tessellation, pyramids and sand dunes.
- But then when the dust cleared, all of a sudden we started discovering volcanoes, valleys, ancient channels, dune fields, polar caps.
- The young blonde now hosts a special on what to do in Dubai, that obscene indoor ski slope, jeeps that bounce like Jelly doughnuts over dunes, lit to look friendly.
- They have call signs, their striker, sand dune gunner.
- It's in a it's this isn't the color sand dunes, sand dunes, sand dunes, sand dunes.
- And I look like kind of sand dune.
Examples
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The children ran up the steep dune to get a better view of the ocean.
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Viewed from the sand dunes to the north, golden beach stretches as far as you can see.
Academic text (1999) -
- Just one more dune to go.
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I want to take you guys out to the dunes tomorrow.
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A good hunter always climbs the highest dune before his hunt.
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I woke up early on our second day in paradise and went out to walk on the dunes.
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Up from the beach lies an area of dunes, and beyond that a thick belt of jungle.
Fiction book (1993) -
Hector curses quietly and looks out across the dunes, angry with himself.
Fiction book (1993) -
Brisk desert winds often shift dunes slowly across hawk nesting areas.
Academic text (1990) -
The erosional phase of the cycle may completely eliminate beaches and dunes on undeveloped coasts.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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3.2
A hill of sand that wind makes near a beach or in a desert
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3.8
A low hill made of loose sand often near coasts or in deserts
Compounds
A very hairy plant with flowers that have no outer petals, native to the San Francisco Bay area
A plant that lives for many years with feathery leaves and small yellow flowers in sand dunes
- Specialized
A long narrow sand hill with a sharp top that runs with the wind in deserts like the Sahara
How Big
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2.7
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dune comes from an old Dutch word dūne meaning 'sand hill'. So a dune is really a 'hill of sand', which is why we use the word for the sandy hills by the sea and in deserts.