embayment

noun

em·bay·ment | \ im-ˈbā-mənt

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Definition of embayment

1 : formation of a bay

2 : a bay or a conformation resembling a bay

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Synonyms

arm, bay, bight, cove, creek [chiefly British], estuary, firth, fjord (also fiord), gulf, inlet, loch [Scottish]

Examples of embayment in a Sentence

a fingerlike embayment of the Bay of Fundy

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Meanwhile, in the Chicago River system, a routine search for bighead and silver carp this month yielded two grass carp in Lake Calumet, an embayment a mere 6 miles away from Lake Michigan on the city’s Far South Side. — Tony Briscoe, chicagotribune.com, "The Great Lakes could be on the ‘edge of an invasion’ by a little-discussed species of Asian carp," 21 June 2019 The idea of so many of this extremely rare animal being in this tiny embayment is not comforting. — Karen Weintraub, New York Times, "No Sign of Newborn North Atlantic Whales This Breeding Season," 28 Feb. 2018

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