Embayment

noun

Word Frequency: 0.1

Definitions

1.nounA bay. (the water)

2.nounThe shoreline of a bay, an indentation in a shoreline. (the land, not the water)

3.nounA topographical feature that used to be a bay, like the Mississippi embayment.

4.nounThe process by which a bay is formed.

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