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coastwide

coastwide adjective: along an entire coast.

Adjective

coastwide (not comparable)

  1. Along an entire coast.
    • To elucidate patterns at the regional scale that may be obscured by our coastwide analysis, we divided the coastline into three biogeographic regions, north of Cape Mendocino, CA (North), between Cape Mendocino and Point Conception, CA (Central), and south of Point Conception (South; Fig 1).2015 August 27, “Patterns and Variation in Benthic Biodiversity in a Large Marine Ecosystem”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of coastwide

From coast + -wide.

Questions about coastwide

What does coastwide mean?
Coastwide means along an entire coast.
What part of speech is coastwide?
Coastwide is an adjective.

Words near coastwide in the dictionary

  1. coastwards
  2. coastwatcher
  3. coastwatchers
  4. coastwatching
  5. coastways
  6. coastwide
  7. coastwise
  8. coat
  9. coat armour
  10. coat armours
  11. coat card

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