A hill or bank of sand; esp. a dune on the sea-shore.
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| 释义 | the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [noun] > sand-hill (14) sand-hillc725 A hill or bank of sand; esp. a dune on the sea-shore. dene1278 A bare sandy tract by the sea; a low sand-hill; as in the Denes north and south of Yarmouth, Dene-side there, the Den at Exmouth, Teignmouth, etc. down1523 A sand dune. Obsolete. sand down1604 dune1605 A mound, hill, or ridge of sand or (occasionally) other loose sediment, typically deposited by the wind and occurring esp. on the sea coast or in… hummock1793 A protuberance or boss of earth, rock, etc., usually conical or dome-shaped, rising above the general… A sand hill on the sea shore. towan1803 A coast sand-hill. sand-dune1830 medano1839 A shifting crescent-shaped sand dune, a barchan; esp. a coastal one in Peru or Chile. sea-bank1858 A dune or sand-hill. barchan1888 A crescent-shaped dune of shifting sand such as occur in the deserts of Turkestan. Also attributive. whaleback1918 Geology. A large mound of the shape of the back of a whale. More widely, any land form or land mass likened to the back of a whale; spec. (a) = roch… fore-dune1921 the part of a dune system nearest to the sea. seif1925 A sand dune having the form of a narrow ridge elongated in a direction parallel to that of the prevailing wind. Also seif dune. |
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