MEANING
A ridge of sand or shingle connecting an island to the mainland or another island.
Use it for
naming a beach-like link to an island; describing a coastal ridge built by deposited sediment; distinguishing an island connection from a general isthmusNames a deposited connection to an island rather than any narrow strip of land. Writing functions: Island-connecting coastal deposit.
Words that belong together
- a sandy tombolo
- a shingle tombolo
- a tombolo linking an island
On the page
The narrow tombolo connected the rocky island to the mainland.
Waves broke on both sides of the shingle tombolo.
Word forms
- Base
- tombolo
Usage notes
Countable noun: tombolo; plurals tombolos or tomboli. Register: technical. Commonness: uncommon outside coastal geography (dictionary-informed qualitative editorial estimate; not a measured frequency).
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