tide pool
noun
: a pool of salt water left (as in a rock basin) by an ebbing tide
called also tidal pool
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This side of the breakwater was lined with tide pools formed from ECOncrete, a composite cement that mimics natural rock formations.
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Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Along the rocky coast of eastern Italy at night, researchers scanned a tide pool in hopes of seeing something interesting.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2025
When the beach is at low tide, visitors can explore the large sea cave and tide pools, or hop on a kayak to paddle through coastal kelp beds.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2025
Horn sharks occasionally will enter tide pools to eat the creatures there.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
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Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Along the rocky coast of eastern Italy at night, researchers scanned a tide pool in hopes of seeing something interesting.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2025
When the beach is at low tide, visitors can explore the large sea cave and tide pools, or hop on a kayak to paddle through coastal kelp beds.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2025
Horn sharks occasionally will enter tide pools to eat the creatures there.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for tide pool
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“Tide pool.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tide%20pool. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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