fiard

Noun

fjard (plural fjards)

1. A more or less open body of water in a coastal archipelago.
   • However, a variety of drowned glacial valleys called fjards have developed in the low-relief rocky coast of northern Sweden, having cross-sections with less steep walls and presenting some lateral terraces which may be confused with strandflats.1995, Gerardo M.E. Perillo, Geomorphology and Sedimentology of Estuaries, page 29