embayment

Meanings

Plural: embayments

Noun

• an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf
• A bay. (the water)
• The shoreline of a bay, an indentation in a shoreline. (the land, not the water)
• A topographical feature that used to be a bay, like the Mississippi embayment.
• The process by which a bay is formed.

Synonyms

bay