peninsula
noun
an area of land almost completely surrounded by water except for an isthmus connecting it with the mainland.
transpeninsular
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a word derived from
peninsula.
Example Sentences
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General Sir Bernard Montgomery's Eighth Army grappled with stoutly resisting Germans for ridge tops and villages barring the way to Pescara, Adriatic terminus of the shortest transpeninsular road to Rome.
From Time Magazine Archive
By week's end they had advanced ten miles, were 14 miles from Pescara, where the shortest transpeninsular roads cut westward through the Apennines toward Rome.
From Time Magazine Archive
