duned

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adjective

Featuring or formed into dunes.

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Meanings

adjectiveduned (not comparable)
  1. not comparablegeographyFeaturing or formed into dunes.

    The banks are duned and are nearly 40 feet above the lake.

    1912, William Mumford Gregory, Geological report on Arenac County, number 11, page 76
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    These are related to positioning of the meter array on the form of the duned bed.

    1971, Royal Astronomical Society, The Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, volume 22, page 153

    Duned coasts appear where sand accumulates on a beach faster than the waves can move the material alongshore.

    1975, Joel S. Watkins, Michael L. Bottino, Marie Morisawa, Our Geological Environment, page 226

Origin

From dune + -ed.

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APA

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Chicago

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