COASTAL PLAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coastal plain mean? 

• COASTAL PLAIN (noun)
  The noun COASTAL PLAIN has 1 sense:

1. a plain adjacent to a coast

  Familiarity information: COASTAL PLAIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COASTAL PLAIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A plain adjacent to a coast

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("coastal plain" is a kind of...):

dry land; earth; ground; land; solid ground; terra firma (the solid part of the earth's surface)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coastal plain"):

tidewater (low-lying coastal land drained by tidal streams)

 Context examples 

The American alligator is the most abundant large predator in aquatic ecosystems along the U.S. Southeast coastal plain.

(Alligators, rulers of the swamps, link marine and freshwater ecosystems, NSF)