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sea stacks

sea stacks is the plural of sea stack.

Meaning of sea stack

Noun

sea stack (plural sea stacks)

  1. (UK) A pillar of rock that rises from the ocean, formed by surrounding softer ground eroding away.
    • The sea-gull sprang upwards from where he had floated on the ripple, and hied him slowly away to his lodge in his deep sea-stack; the dusky cormorant flitted past, with heavier and more frequent stroke, to his whitened shelf high on the precipice; [...]1854 May 15, “Notes on Books”, in Norton’s Literary Gazette and Publishers’ Circular, volume I (New Series), number X, New York, N.Y.: Baker, Godwin & Co., […] [for Charles Benjamin Norton], →OCLC...
    Synonyms:
    stack

Forms of sea stacks

alternative formsea-stacks

Questions about sea stacks

What is sea stacks the plural of?
Sea stacks is the plural of sea stack.

Words near sea stacks in the dictionary

  1. sea squill
  2. sea squills
  3. sea squirt
  4. sea squirts
  5. sea stack
  6. sea stacks
  7. sea star
  8. sea star associated densovirus
  9. sea star associated densoviruses
  10. sea star wasting disease
  11. sea star-associated densovirus

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