headlanded

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adjective

Having a headland or headlands.

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Meanings

adjectiveheadlanded (not comparable)
  1. not comparableHaving a headland or headlands.

    The many-headlanded, the temple-crowned, / Which the great purple sea so whispered round

    1884, Bayard Taylor, Melodies of Verse, page 55
    1 more example

    There are headlanded rocky shores, sandy and mixed sand/gravel beaches, beaches of quartzto/feldspathic and iron sands, huge sand barriers, dune fields, coastal lagoons, tidal inlets, river mouths, fiords, and a continental shelf […]

    2003, James R. Goff, Scott Nichol, Helen L. Rouse, The New Zealand Coast, page 297

Origin

From headland + -ed.

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APA

headlanded. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/headlanded

MLA

“headlanded.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/headlanded. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “headlanded,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/headlanded.

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