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limans

limans is the plural of liman.

Meaning of liman

Noun

liman (plural limans)

  1. A wide estuary formed as a lagoon at the mouth of one or more rivers, where flow is constrained by a bar of sediments (created by either the current of a sea or a sediment-saturated river), especially in the Black Sea region.
    • Only at a point where a river, a streamlet, even a balka (step-glen, ravine) opens into the sea, is the steep incline of the steppe-plateau broken. […] This sea-water lake is called liman in Ukrainian. Wherever a stream of great volume empties into a liman, the bar is severed at one or more places.1918, Stephen Rudnicki, Ukraine, the Land and Its People: An Introduction to Its Geography, page 19

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Noun capitalized: Limans

Limans

  1. (plural) plural of Liman

Questions about limans

What is limans the plural of?
Limans is the plural of liman.
What part of speech is limans?
Limans is a noun.

Words near limans in the dictionary

  1. Limaha
  2. limail
  3. limaille
  4. liman
  5. Limander
  6. limans
  7. Limanu
  8. Limao
  9. limapontiid
  10. limapontiids
  11. limaprost

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