gravelly pebbly shingly

gravelly pebbly shingly
beachlike each"like` adj. having an extensive gently sloping area of sand or gravel; -- of a shore or shoreline. Opposite of {cliffy}. [Narrower terms: {gravelly, pebbly, shingly}]

Syn: beachy. [WordNet 1.5]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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  • beachlike — each like adj. having an extensive gently sloping area of sand or gravel; of a shore or shoreline. Opposite of {cliffy}. [Narrower terms: {gravelly, pebbly, shingly}] Syn: beachy. [WordNet 1.5] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • craggy — Synonyms and related words: asperous, corrugated, cragged, crinkled, crumpled, crystal, crystalline, gravelly, gritty, harsh, ironbound, jagged, jaggy, lapideous, lithoid, lithoidal, monolithic, pebbled, pebbly, porphyritic, ragged, rock ribbed,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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