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Definition of Tombolo
1. Noun. A spit of sand linking an island to the mainland (or to another island), formed by longshore drift. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tombolo
1. a sandbar connecting an island to the mainland [n -LOS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tombolo
Literary usage of Tombolo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shore Processes and Shoreline Development by Douglas Wilson Johnson (1919)
"On maps of the Institute Geografico Militare of Italy such names as " tombolo
della Giannella " and " tombolo di Feniglia " are printed along bars ..."
2. Shore Processes and Shoreline Development by Douglas Wilson Johnson (1919)
"meaning of the word: " a small bank of sand thrown up by the sea." On. maps of
the Instituto Geografico Militare of Italy such names as " tombolo della ..."
3. Bulletin by Geological Society of America (1896)
"In the early stages of the growth of a tombolo a condition occurs similar to ...
After an island has become land-tied by one tombolo or by two inclosing a ..."
4. Bulletin by Geological Society of America (1904)
"This could only be possible if the tombolo was first built as a bar ... Of course,
it is possible that there might have been an opening in the tombolo north ..."
5. Report of the Eighth International Geographic Congress, Held in the United (1905)
"This uncompleted tombolo has gone through many changes of form since the first
maps were made of this region, the currents having broken across it at many ..."
6. A Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy by John Murray (Firm) (1857)
"6 m. distant, over the mountains which form its promontory, and from Piombino
through the sandy tract of pine forest called the tombolo to Follonica ..."
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