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Definitions for "Promontory"
Keywords:  headland, juts, prominent, sea, tympanum
Related Terms: Headland, Cape, Bay, Barrier island, Fiord, Sound, Fjord, Gulf, Cuspate foreland, Shelf, Barrier beach, Continental shelf, Marginal sea, Guyot, Spit, Sea stack, Ocs, Embayment, Outer continental shelf, Oceanic trench, Oceanic, Seamount, Roadstead, Backshore, Neritic, Coastal plain, Oceanic ridge, Peninsula, Offshore, Neritic zone, Trench, Abyssal plain, Subtidal, Mudflat, Coastal zone, Point, Mid-ocean ridge, Tidal flat, Foreshore, Shore, Atoll, Ahupua'a, Gulf, Pelagic zone, Intertidal zone, Longshore bar, Tombolo, Littoral zone, Continental margin, Coast
A high point of land or rock projecting into the sea beyond the line of coast; a headland; a high cape.
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A projecting part. Especially: (a) The projecting angle of the ventral side of the sacrum where it joins the last lumbar vertebra. (b) A prominence on the inner wall of the tympanum of the ear.
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a prominent mass of land which overlooks lower lying land or a body of water (e.g., a peninsula or headland). headland peninsula Latin abbreviation
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