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Coastal Plain

Definition: Coastal Plain

Coastal Plain

Noun

1. A plain adjacent to a coast.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definition: Coastal Plain

DomainDefinition

Geography

Low, generally broad plain that has its margin on an oceanic shore and its strata either horizontal or very gently sloping toward the water, generally representing a strip of recently prograded or emerged sea floor. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Coastal Plain

English words defined with "coastal plain": Lyonia marianaPiedmontstagger bush, staggerbushtidewater. (references)
Specialty definitions using "coastal plain": continental terracegravel plain placersalt dome. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Coastal Plain

DomainTitle

Books

  • Facing Our Future: Hurricane Floyd and Recovery in the Coastal Plain (reference)

  • Hoppin' John's Lowcountry Cooking: Recipes and Ruminations from Charleston & the Carolina Coastal Plain (reference)

  • Illustrated Plants of Florida and the Coastal Plain (reference)

  • Sea and Land: Cultural and Biological Adaptions in the Southern Coastal Plain (Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings, No 21) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Coastal Plain

Illustrations:
Coastal Plain

More pictures...

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Photo Album: Coastal Plain

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

North Inlet - Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Canebrake rattlesnakes, common in the coastal plain of South Carolina, are infrequent visitors salt marsh edges. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Coastal Plain

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Togo

Terrain: Savannah and hills and coastal plain. (references)

Suriname

Most Surinamers live in the narrow, northern coastal plain. (references)

Guyana

Terrain: Coastal plain, inland highlands, rain forest, savanna. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Coastal Plain

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

coastal plain

31

baseball coastal plain

19

coastal plain raceway

18

coastal plain arctic refuge

5

coastal plain artic refuge

5

atlantic coastal plain

4

coastal plain speedway

3

polar bear coastal plain

3

drilling legislation coastal plain

3

inupiat eskimo coastal plain

3

indigenous people coastal plain

3

inupiat coastal plain

3

coastal plain resa

3

migratory bird coastal plain

3

caribou coastal plain

3

athabascan indian coastal plain

3

native indian coastal plain

3

native people coastal plain

3

coastal plain southern state united

2

coastal plain race way

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Coastal Plain

Language Translations for "coastal plain"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

kystslette, kystflade. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

kustvlakte. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

rantatasanne (beach plain, foreland, strand plain). (various references)

   

French

  

plaine littorale, plaine côtière. (various references)

   

German

  

Küstenebene. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

παράκτια πεδιάδα, παράκτια λεκάνη. (various references)

   

Italian

  

pianura litorale, pianura costiera (beach plain, foreland, strand plain). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

海岸平野 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

かいが"へいや. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oastalcay ainplay

   

Portuguese

  

praia sobreelevada. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kustslätt. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Coastal Plain

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-i-l-l-n-o-p-s-t"

-2 letters: altiplanos, anaplastic, placations, spallation.

-3 letters: allantoic, allantois, altiplano, aplanatic, caponatas, placation, talapoins.

-4 letters: acapnias, alations, ancillas, aplastic, callants, cantalas, capitals, capitols, caponata, captains, captions, catalpas, coalpits, lanitals, localist, pactions, palatals, palatial, platinas, platonic, postanal, santalic, santalol, scallion, stallion, talapoin, tapiocas.

-5 letters: acapnia, actinal, actions, alation, alnicos, alpacas, ancilla, anopias, anopsia, apicals, aplasia, apostil, asocial.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-i-l-l-n-o-p-s-t"
 

+4 letters: psychoanalytical.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Coastal Plain


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6F 61 73 74 61 6C      50 6C 61 69 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101111 01100001 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101100 00100000 01010000 01101100 01100001 01101001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#97 &#115 &#116 &#97 &#108 &#32 &#80 &#108 &#97 &#105 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 0061 0073 0074 0061 006C      0050 006C 0061 0069 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3781678586677825078677580

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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