Meaning of bayhead | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A swamp habitat dominated by bay laurels.
2. The portion of a bay located farthest inland, farthest from the body of water the bay is confluent with.

Examples

“A hammock or a "bayhead" (a cypress swamp) offers the next most favorable conditions, but a soil of nearly pure muck or vegetable detritus, of a fine floury texture, does not resist drouth as well as does the sandy flatwoods soil.”

“Two lowlands lie at the bayhead, one at either end and separated by a steep shore. Utasutsu Bay is separated from Naibo Bay by the volcanic cone on Poronetsu Peninsula. Depths are 60 feet within 1,500 yards of land, and there is a sandy beach at the bayhead.”

“The open-bay environment in Corpus Christi Bay is more saline than within Nueces Bay, indicating an open-bay environment located distal from the bayhead delta within Corpus Christi Bay and restricted or interdistributary bay located behind the main distributaries of the active bayhead delta in Nueces Bay.”

“A specific feature of the northern coast of Estonia is the largely intermittent nature of the local wave climate. As different from the classical examples of bay beaches, the bayhead beaches here are only partially sheltered from intense waves. Very high waves occasionally penetrate into such bays […]”

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