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

B

bay

vsembayment

533 1.0

A part of the sea partly surrounded by land

is the same size range between cove and gulf

R

reentrance

vsembayment

8.9

A small bay along a coast where the land curves inward

is larger in size between cove and gulf

How Big

gulf

762 2.3

embayment

1 9.8

cove

53 3.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology