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  • adjective Between dunes.

Etymologies

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inter- +‎ dunal

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Examples

  • In the damp hollows and interdunal valleys (Monte Negro) tree heather Erica scoparia and heath E. ciliaris grow, succeeding cork oak Quercus suber and strawberry trees Arbutus unedo.

    Doñana National Park, Spain 2008

  • These unusual surface features support a wetland type that occurs in interdunal depressions called “sandponds” that either are in contact with the water table or have a perched aquifer; these are not found in the neighboring Western Lowlands Holocene Meander Belts (73f) ecoregion.

    Ecoregions of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (EPA) 2009

  • The white places on your map include the air base, the army base, the missile range, the vast stretch to the northwest called the Jornada del Muerto and the interdunal flats as well—the flats were map-white, on the page and in living fact, and a few low buildings were situated here, fenced structures with propane tanks, to service the underground operation in the Pocket, where weapons were conceived and designed.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • The Michigan Lake Plain ecoregion is a sandy coastal strip with beaches, high dunes, beach ridges, mucky interdunal depressions, and swales.

    Ecoregions of Indiana and Ohio (EPA) 2008

  • The white places on your map include the air base, the army base, the missile range, the vast stretch to the northwest called the Jornada del Muerto and the interdunal flats as well—the flats were map-white, on the page and in living fact, and a few low buildings were situated here, fenced structures with propane tanks, to service the underground operation in the Pocket, where weapons were conceived and designed.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • About 10 percent of this ecoregion is composed of sand dunes, and the other 90 percent of craggy rock forms, compacted salt-lake bottoms, and interdunal and fixed dune areas.

    Thar desert 2008

  • Many interdunal depressions called “sandponds” occur and are either in contact with the water table or have a perched aquifer.

    Ecoregions of Arkansas (EPA) 2008

  • The Sand Hills consist of various dune types and interdunal valleys, dominance of Cenozoic sands, and a distinct soil type (entisols).

    Nebraska Sand Hills mixed grasslands 2008

  • The white places on your map include the air base, the army base, the missile range, the vast stretch to the northwest called the Jornada del Muerto and the interdunal flats as well—the flats were map-white, on the page and in living fact, and a few low buildings were situated here, fenced structures with propane tanks, to service the underground operation in the Pocket, where weapons were conceived and designed.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • The area has relatively level interdunal flats, winding between generally low dunes.

    Chapter 6 1995

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