seabeach

[ see-beech ]

noun

1. a beach lying along a sea or ocean.

Word History and Origins

Origin of seabeach¹

First recorded in 1765–75; sea + beach

Example Sentences

Meanwhile, surveys continue at Cape Henlopen for a threatened plant species, the seabeach amaranth.

From Washington Times

Park officials were so concerned about the potential effects on one endangered plant, the seabeach amaranth, that they began placing wire mesh cages around them to keep hungry horses at bay.

From Washington Times

The threatened seabeach amaranth, a low-growing, waxy-leaved plant with reddish stems, sprouts intermittently above the high tide line.

From New York Times

Their circuit had brought them round to the landward side of the fortress, to a point bearing south by east of the town, when through a breach—yes, a clean breach!—in the wall they gazed out across the fosse and along a high turfy ridge that roughly followed the curve of the cliffs and of the seabeach below.

From Project Gutenberg

But at last they saw a gleam of daylight, then a strip of blue sky, and the mermaid bade them stoop and creep through what seemed a narrow crack in the ground, and both stood on the broad seabeach as the day was breaking and the tide ebbing fast away.

From Project Gutenberg