isthmus
noun
a narrow strip of land, bordered on both sides by water, connecting two larger bodies of land.
isthmuses
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pluralof isthmus.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The Crimean Peninsula extends south from Ukraine’s mainland, with road connections on two isthmuses, one of which is less than 1 mile wide, and by a bridge from a narrow spit.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 17, 2023
The pseudospores of Rœstelia are produced in strings or chaplets, as in Æcidium, with this difference, that instead of being contiguous they are separated by narrow isthmuses.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
Marine isthmuses, cutting of, 517; its difficulties, 518; sometimes done by nature, 519.
From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. Marsh
Great masses of vegetation, piers, causeways, isthmuses of grass offered the illusion of growing out of the ocean bottom, linking themselves to the land, extending too late the lost coast far out into the Pacific.
From Greener Than You Think by Ward Moore
The isthmuses of Panama and Suez are in our way; we cut through them!
From Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century by N. D'Anvers
