embayment
Meaning
- A bay. (the water)
- The shoreline of a bay, an indentation in a shoreline. (the land, not the water)
- A topographical feature that used to be a bay, like the Mississippi embayment.
- The process by which a bay is formed.
Etymology
From em- + bay + -ment.
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