tideland
- noun
- /ˈtaɪdˌlænd/
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zona intermareal
- The tideland by the shore is home to many unique species of plants and animals.
Examples
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Relics of ancient times... lonely cenotaphs... standing along that melancholy tideland.
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In short, an Orange Line stop would be a boon for the site and reestablish the Mystic River and its tidelands as the great transportation center they were in the past, whether for ships, railroads, or automobiles.
Academic text (2001) -
Now, listen, you both have tidelands.
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California has taken steps in the same direction, applying the doctrine to tidelands because of their importance as ecological units.
Academic text (1992) -
The court further stated that the streams, lakes, marshlands, and tidelands of the state were part of the people's common heritage, and that the state could surrender the use of this heritage only when such an act was consistent with the purposes of the trust.
Academic text (1996) -
An important departure that this proposed approach makes from current trust doctrine is that it would not immunize any resource from development activity that would not disrupt the biotic community, whether the community was a tideland, lake, or meadow.
Academic text (1992) -
With the diking of tidelands, production increased to a peak of at least 20,000 sacks (40,000 bushels) in 1925.
Academic text (1996) -
This wording gives unusual force to the Public Trust Doctrine that protects citizens' access to the tidelands to varying degrees in all twenty-three coastal states (Dean 1999, 125).
Academic text (2005) -
Its course and floodplain significantly altered by dams, housing and commercial development, and other land uses requiring the filling of acres of tidelands, the Mystic, like its better-known cousin to the south, the Charles River, still defines much of the topography and place names of its basin, as it should.
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During low tide, the beach reveals a vast expanse of tideland where crabs scuttle among the rocks.
Synonyms
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4.1
A flat area of wet mud near the sea that appears at low tide
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4.2
An area of shore that the sea covers and uncovers with each tide
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7.3
Low land on the coast that is flooded or drained by the tide
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9.3
The part of the shore of a sea or lake between high and low water
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word tideland comes from tide ('the rising and falling of the sea') and land ('ground'), so it means ground by the sea that is regularly covered and uncovered by the tide.