Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ridge of loose sand drifted by the wind: same as
dune .
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Examples
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The book is so full of helpful tips that some paragraphs will need a second read; otherwise, one could get lost trying to figure out east from west, follow sea currents and decipher sand-dune shapes.
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The book is so full of helpful tips that some paragraphs will need a second read; otherwise, one could get lost trying to figure out east from west, follow sea currents and decipher sand-dune shapes.
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The water stood, a great lake of it, bulging beyond a high sand-dune.
Archive 2008-05-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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The water stood, a great lake of it, bulging beyond a high sand-dune.
A Line Drawn in the Sand Heather McDougal 2008
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Policymakers faced with the degradation of coastal and marine environments, including the loss of coastal flats and sand-dune degradation, focus on reclamation of intertidal and sub-tidal mudflats and sandbanks and damage to coral reefs.
Regional scenarios for Africa's future~ coastal and marine environments 2008
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If Bufoniceps is the sister-taxon to Phrynocephalus, then its sand-dune habitat suggests that arenicoly (= ‘sand loving’) is primitive for toad-heads, and that saxicoly (= ‘stone loving’) evolved later on.
Archive 2006-12-01 Darren Naish 2006
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If Bufoniceps is the sister-taxon to Phrynocephalus, then its sand-dune habitat suggests that arenicoly (= ‘sand loving’) is primitive for toad-heads, and that saxicoly (= ‘stone loving’) evolved later on.
Harduns and toad-heads; a tale of arenicoly and over-looked convergence Darren Naish 2006
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P. lewisi is restricted to a .8 square-kilometer (km2) reserve of sand-dune habitat in the Cromwell area.
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A large chunk of the new capacity, some 250,000 barrels a day, is to come from a three-year expansion under way at the big Shaybah field, on the edge of a vast sand-dune region known as Rub al Khali, or the Empty Quarter.
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A large chunk of the new capacity, some 250,000 barrels a day, is to come from a three-year expansion under way at the big Shaybah field, on the edge of a vast sand-dune region known as Rub al Khali, or the Empty Quarter.
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