lagoon
noun
an area of shallow water separated from the sea by low sandy dunes.
lagoonal
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a word derived from
lagoon.
Example Sentences
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It would have lived at the beginning of a period of rising sea levels and would have stalked lagoonal waters and sandflats in search of food.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2022
Layers of beach sands and lagoonal muds and coral reefs accumulate into sediments that form sandstones, good reservoir rocks, next to mudstones next to limestones, both potential source rocks.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
The stratified rocks of this system include marine limestones, shales and sandstones; estuarine, lagoonal and fresh-water shales, sandstones and marls with beds of coal, oil-bearing rocks, gypsum and salt.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various
Of the Gasteropod genera Cerithium with its estuarine and lagoonal forms Potamides, Potamidopsis, &c., is very characteristic; Rostellaria, Voluta, Fusus, Pleurotoma, Conus, Typhis, may also be cited.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
Usually more coastal, often ascending rivers and entering lagoonal and estuarine areas.
From Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic A Guide to Their Identification by David Caldwell
