dune

تعريف dune في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.: A ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind; A low mound, ridge, bank or hill of loose, windblown, granular material (generally sand), either bare or covered with vegetation, capable of movement from place to place but always retaining its characteristic shape; A dune is a hill or a ridge made of sand Dunes are shaped by the wind, and change all the time; Mounds or hills of sand created by dune grasses, which trap sand grains being moved across the beach by wind; accumulation of wind-blown sand in ridges or mounds that lie landward of the beach and usually parallel to the shoreline; {i} hill of drifted sand; a ridge of sand created by the wind; found in deserts or near lakes and oceans; A usually asymmetrical mound or ridge of sand that has been transported and deposited by wind Dunes form in both arid and humid climates; a mound or ridge of sand formed by the action of wind or waves (dune); n a low hill or bank of wind-blown sand; A low hill of drifting sand usually formed on the coats, but often carried far inland by the prevailing winds; A low mound of fine-grained material that accumulates as a result of sediment transport in a current system Dunes have characteristic geometric forms that are maintained as they migrate Sand dunes are commonly classified according to shape See also: barchan dune, longitudinal dune, parabolic dune, seif dune, star dune, and transverse dune; A dune is a hill of sand near the sea or in a desert. a hill made of sand near the sea or in the desert = sand dune; (1) Stream bed deposit found streams whose channel is composed mainly of sand and silt Dunes are about 10 or more centimeters in height and are spaced a meter or more apart and are common in streams with high velocities; a hill or ridge of wind-blown sand
dune buggy: A recreational vehicle with large tyres / tires, designed for use on beaches and sand dunes
dune buggy: a recreational vehicle with large tires used on beaches or sand dunes
dune buggy: A recreational vehicle having oversize tires designed for use on sand dunes or beaches, especially a light vehicle with a modified engine mounted on an open chassis. Also called beach buggy. a car with big wheels and no roof that you can drive across sand = beach buggy
dune cycling: bicycling or motorcycling on sand dunes
sand dune: A large, semi-permanent mound of windblown sand, held together by specialized plants, common along seashores and in deserts
sand dune: hill of drifted sand, mound of sand, small hill made of sand
camphor dune tansy: densely hairy plant with rayless flowers; San Francisco Bay area
dunes: (1) Accumulations of windblown SAND on the BACKSHORE, usually in the form of small hills or ridges, stabilized by vegetation or control structures (2) A type of bed form indicating significant SEDIMENT transport over a sandy seabed
dunes: A rounded hill or ridge of sand heaped up by the action of the wind
dunes: Mounds of loose sand grains shaped up by the wind
dunes: Ridges or mounds of loose, wind-blown material, usually sand
dunes: plural of dune
dunes: mountains of sand that resemble large ripples
inland dune: mound of sand located away from the sea, sand dune that is not near the sea shore
northern dune tansy: lightly hairy rhizomatous perennial having aromatic feathery leaves and stems bearing open clusters of small buttonlike yellow flowers; sand dunes of Pacific coast of North America
sand dune: A sand dune is a hill of sand near the sea or in a sand desert. = dune. a hill formed of sand in a desert or near the sea. Hill, mound, or ridge of windblown sand or other loose material such as clay particles. Dunes are commonly associated with desert regions and seacoasts, and there are large areas of dunes in nonglacial parts of Antarctica
sand dune: a ridge of sand created by the wind; found in deserts or near lakes and oceans
sand dune: A hill or ridge of sand piled up by the wind commonly found along shores, along some river valleys, and generally where there is dry surface sand during some part of the year
sand dune: A DUNE formed of SAND
sand dune: A hill or ridge of aeolian sand deposits with a minimum height of less than one meter and a maximum height of about 50 meters Found in hot deserts and along sandy coastlines
sand dune: n a mound, ridge, or hill of loose sand, heaped up by the wind
seif dune: A sharp-crested longitudinal sand dune common to the Sahara and ranging up to 300 m (900 ft) in height and 300 km (200 mi) in length
seif dune: a long and tall sand dune with a sharp crest; common in the Sahara