sand dune

English

Noun

sand dune (plural sand dunes)

1. (geology) A large, semi-permanent mound of windblown sand, held together by specialized plants, common along seashores and in deserts.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 86:

     So enfeebled was resolution in him that he could only palter at a fatuous picture of himself carrying Podson bodily over the lagoon and dumping him on the sand dunes.

Synonyms

• dune

Translations

mound of windblown sand

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沙丘 (zh) (shāqiū)

• Estonian: liivaluide
• Finnish: hiekkadyyni
• French: dune de sable f
• German: Wanderdüne (de) f
• Greek: αμμόλοφος (el) m (ammólofos)
• Hungarian: homokdűne (hu)
• Korean: 둔치 (dunchi), 모래톱 (moraetop), 사구(砂丘) (ko) (sagu)
• Maori: tāhuahua
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sanddyne (no) m

  Nynorsk: sanddyne f

• Plautdietsch: Sauntdien f
• Portuguese: duna de areia f
• Russian: песчаная дю́на f (pesčanaja djúna)
• Spanish: duna de arena f
• Swahili: tuta la mchanga
• Swedish: sanddyn (sv) c
• Thai: เนินทราย (nəən-saai)

Anagrams

• dunesand, unsadden, unsanded