A part of a system of sand dunes on the side nearest to the sea.
〔生态〕水边低沙丘，沙丘向风面
Example sentencesExamples
Seabeach amaranth typically occurs on sparsely vegetated areas such as interdunal flats, overwash flats, lower foredunes, and points of non-eroding beaches.
He was nearly up to the foredune when he landed it, and as the water ran back down the steep part of the beach I could see it was a small shark he'd hooked.
In addition, modern and Holocene sediments were collected from an embayment fill succession, comprising a series of relict foredunes at Longbeach, Guichen Bay.
The plants' slender blades catch sand blowing inland and settle it into an ever taller foredune.
Recycling, fencing and transplanting will encourage growth of new foredunes over buried structures.
Definition of foredune in US English:
foredune
nounˈfôrdo͞on
Ecology
A part of a system of sand dunes on the side nearest to the sea.
〔生态〕水边低沙丘，沙丘向风面
Example sentencesExamples
He was nearly up to the foredune when he landed it, and as the water ran back down the steep part of the beach I could see it was a small shark he'd hooked.
Recycling, fencing and transplanting will encourage growth of new foredunes over buried structures.
The plants' slender blades catch sand blowing inland and settle it into an ever taller foredune.
Seabeach amaranth typically occurs on sparsely vegetated areas such as interdunal flats, overwash flats, lower foredunes, and points of non-eroding beaches.
In addition, modern and Holocene sediments were collected from an embayment fill succession, comprising a series of relict foredunes at Longbeach, Guichen Bay.