tidal inlet

tidal inlet
   1) Any inlet through which water alternately floods landward with the rising tide and ebbs seaward with the falling tide.
   Compare: inlet, relict-tidal inlet.
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   2) [ relict ]
   A channel remnant of a former tidal inlet. The channel was cutoff or abandoned by infilling from migrating shore sediments.
   Compare: inlet, tidal inlet.
   SSS

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