coastal
adjUK /ˈkəʊstəl/ · US /ˈkoʊstəl/
Etymology From coast + -al. Piecewise doublet of costal.
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Geography, Natural sciences Relating to the coast; on or near the coast; longshore.
- coastal town
- coastal breeze
3 more examples
- coastal elites
- These included other Niphargus species from deep cave lakes and coastal anchihaline caves [23 ] and Gammarus and Echinogammarus amphipods that live only in permanently watered streams [21 ,24 ].2015 July 31, “Morphologically Cryptic Amphipod Species Are “Ecological Clones” at Regional but Not at Local Scale: A Case Study of Four Niphargus Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
- Another ANC splinter party, the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK), led by former President Jacob Zuma appears to be on course to do well in KwaZulu-Natal, the eastern coastal province where Durban is located.2024 May 30, Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, “First results in South Africa’s election suggest it is heading for biggest political shift since apartheid”, in CNN:
- Derived terms
- bicoastal, Coastal Andhra, coastal elite, coastal grandma, coastal grandmother, coastally, coastal moa, coastal strawberry, coastal waterfall, coastal waters, intercoastal, intracoastal, midcoastal, noncoastal, palaeocoastal, subcoastal, Suffolk Coastal, tricoastal
- Coordinate terms
- littoral