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headlanded

headlanded adjective: having a headland or headlands.

Adjective

headlanded (not comparable)

  1. Having a headland or headlands.
    • The many-headlanded, the temple-crowned, / Which the great purple sea so whispered round1884, Bayard Taylor, Melodies of Verse, page 55
    • There are headlanded rocky shores, sandy and mixed sand/gravel beaches, beaches of quartzto/feldspathic and iron sands, huge sand barriers, dune fields, coastal lagoons, tidal inlets, river mouths, fiords, and a continental shelf […]2003, James R. Goff, Scott Nichol, Helen L. Rouse, The New Zealand Coast, page 297

Origin of headlanded

From headland + -ed.

Questions about headlanded

What does headlanded mean?
Headlanded means having a headland or headlands.
What part of speech is headlanded?
Headlanded is an adjective.

Words near headlanded in the dictionary

  1. Headlam
  2. headlamp
  3. headlamps
  4. Headlams
  5. headland
  6. headlanded
  7. headlands
  8. headlap
  9. headlaps
  10. headlease
  11. headleases

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