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A dry lake or playa whose bed contains abundant alkali salts.
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(geography) A plain formed by the deposition of sediment from the periodic flooding of a river.
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(geomorphology) A bedform found in fluvial environments, opposing the direction of flow.
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An underwater environment designed for an aquarium.
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A narrow bar of sand or gravel formed by the sea; a sandbank.
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One of a pair of sand dunes, furthest from the coast, separated from a foredune by a trough
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An arc-shaped sand ridge comprising well-sorted sand.
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Alternative form of basset (“card game”) [(geology) The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop.]
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(geography) A body of water (especially the sea) more-or-less three-quarters surrounded by land.
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(sports) A dry, dusty pitch or situation, as though playing on sand.
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The artificial replenishment of sand washed away from a beach by coastal erosion
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Pertaining to the material making up the edge of a seashore, as with pebbles, gravel, and sand.
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(geology) bench (thin strip of relatively flat land bounded by slopes)
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(geology) A sandy depression in a sand dune ecosystem caused by the removal of sediments by wind.
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The open ocean; deep seas.
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An uncommon cave formation resulting from a rise in water level such that a stalactite becomes immersed in water that is supersaturated with calcium carbonate, causing the stalactite to become coated with pool spar.
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A kind of speleothem, formed as calcite crystallizes on a nucleus such as a grain of sand, in much the same way that a biological pearl forms within a mollusc.
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A hole or hollow depression in a solid object.
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A narrow cleft in a rock face; a narrow vertical cave passage.
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(geology) A dry salt lake, in the Saharan area of Africa, that stays dry in the summer but receives some water in the winter.
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(geology) A layer (or layers) of sand deposited by wind, typically in a coastal environment
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a sand dune by the seashore
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(geology) Alternative form of doline [A depression (basin, hollow) in karstic terrain/limestone.]
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A depression (basin, hollow) in karstic terrain/limestone.
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(countable) A thermistor that is towed behind a ship to measure the ocean's temperature.
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(geography) An elongated hill or ridge of glacial drift.
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Pertaining to or consisting of dunes.
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(geomorphology) A ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind.
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(geology) Featuring or formed into dunes.
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An area containing many sand dunes
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The exposed base of a sand dune.
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Land where dunes are found.
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A loose thin sand that can be carried by the wind.
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(geology) Alternative form of esker [A long, narrow, sinuous ridge created by deposits from a stream running beneath a glacier.]
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(geology) A crack in the surface of the Earth which contains mineral matter.
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(geography) A kind of dune ridge that runs parallel to the shore of a body of water.
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a valley that resembles the letter U
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The accumulation of (typically sand) grains to form a dune
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(ecology) Water, mostly from rain, that replenishes the water lost by evaporation or respiration from forests.
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(oceanography) A flat-topped seamount.
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(geology) A slope; (in mining) the slope of a vein, fault or dike from the vertical; the complement of the dip.
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(geology) A sharp steep-sided ridge formed by the erosion of tilting strata
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(geology) A type of land formation, usually with many caves formed through the dissolving of limestone by underground drainage.
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Abounding in ledges; consisting of a ledge or reef.
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A golf course, especially one situated on dunes by the sea.
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(golf) Characteristic of a links (golf course situated on dunes near the sea).
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(geology) A mapped bedrock unit in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.
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(geology) A type of crescent-shaped dune blown up along a lake basin, especially in dry areas of Australia.
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(uncountable) Water belonging to an ocean.
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(astronomy) An astronomical body containing a significant amount of liquid water.
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(especially South Africa) A dry lake or playa, especially a salt flat.
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(geology, US) A level area which habitually fills with water that evaporates entirely.
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(geology) An extensive depression having a flat floor and steep walls but no outflowing surface stream and found in a region having karst topography (as in parts of Yugoslavia).
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A collection of pumice stones that form a floating island of rock and sand, as pumice is less dense than water.
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Wet sand that appears firm but in which things readily sink, often found near rivers or coasts.
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(geology) Any of a series of moraines, in parts of Norway, that are long ridges covered with stones.
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Obsolete spelling of reef [A chain or range of rocks, sand, or coral lying at or near the surface of the water.]
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(Australia, New Zealand) A reef (seam of quartz).
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(geography) A transverse ridge of bedrock that has been exposed by glacial erosion.
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(planetology) A long, narrow depression that resembles a channel, found on the surface of various lunar and planetary bodies.
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A dune formed from the sandy bed of a river
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Alternative form of river dune [A dune formed from the sandy bed of a river]
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(British spelling) Rock or other suitable material used to protect shorelines, streambeds, bridge abutments, pilings and other structures against scour and water, wave, or ice erosion.
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Alternative form of rockpool [tidepool]
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A section of a garden made from decorative rocks and alpine plants.
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(astronomy) An astronomical object that is not a monolith, but rather consists of numerous pieces of rock that have coalesced under the influence of gravity.
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Alternative spelling of sandbar [A ridge of sand caused by the action of waves along a shore.]
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(geology) A large, semi-permanent mound of windblown sand, held together by specialized plants, common along seashores and in deserts.
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(meteorology) A dust devil; a whirling, columnar vortex of sand occasionally seen in desert regions.
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(geology) A relatively flat area of sand blown there by the wind
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The extraction of sand (sometimes illegally) from beaches, dunes or river beds
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A mass of wet sand formed into a ball.
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a beach consisting of mainly sand
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A thick layer of sand, whether deposited naturally or artificially.
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A sculpture made of sand and resembling a miniature castle; typically, but not always, made for fun by a child on a beach.
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An extended, flat area of sand, typically near a shore, with little or no vegetation.
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The flow of sand, under the influence of wind, to form dunes
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A children’s play area consisting of a large container filled with sand.
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(geology) An area whose surface consists of sand deposited from elsewhere by the wind or sea.
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A small sandy point of land or a narrow shoal projecting into a body of water from the shore
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Alternative spelling of sand trap [(golf) A sand-filled hollow, on a golf course, used as a hazard; a bunker.]
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Alternative form of sandveld [(geography, chiefly Africa) An area of land characterized by dry, sandy soil.]
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Alternative form of sand winning [The extraction of sand (sometimes illegally) from beaches, dunes or river beds]
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Any of a series of long, wavelike ridges or grooves formed on a snow surface by the wind, especially in polar plains, and surfaces of ice covered lakes/seas. These dunes of snow may be blown across the plains like wind-driven waves.
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(planetology) A large, dark plain of rock; a mare.
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Alternative spelling of seabed [The floor or bottom of the sea or ocean.]
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(chiefly Britain, geology) A pillar of rock that rises from the ocean, formed by surrounding softer ground eroding away.
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Alternative form of sea stack [(chiefly Britain, geology) A pillar of rock that rises from the ocean, formed by surrounding softer ground eroding away.]
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(in the plural) A sandy seabeach.
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The saltwater of a sea or ocean.
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A sand dune that elongates parallel to the prevailing wind.
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sand that produces sound
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(Antarctica) A crack or fissure in a glacier or snowfield; a chasm; a crevasse.
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An aquarium with many sea creatures.
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A glade in a forest with a lot of sunshine coming in.
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A broad glacial valley formed during an ice age by meltwater flowing roughly parallel to the ice margin.
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A type of sand dune in North Carolina.
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A dune with no slip face, formed from coarse sand, having a hard surface.
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