tombolo

A tombolo of washed-up sand connected Spain’s Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera (top) to mainland Morocco (bottom) after a storm in 1934

Meaning

Noun

A spit of sand linking an island to the mainland (or to another island), formed by longshore drift.

Origin

From Italian tombolo, from Latin tumulus, from tumeō. tumulus.

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