Usually means: Elevated land projecting into water.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. promontories: Merriam-Webster
  2. promontories: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. promontories: Collins English Dictionary
  4. promontories: Vocabulary.com
  5. promontories: Wordnik
  6. promontories: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. promontories: Wiktionary
  8. promontories: Dictionary.com
  9. Promontories: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Promontories: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. promontories: FreeDictionary.org
  12. promontories: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. promontories: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. promontories: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. promontories: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (promontory)

noun:  A high point of land extending into a body of water, headland; cliff.
noun:  (anatomy) A projecting part of the body.
noun:  A projection on the sacrum.
noun:  A rounded elevation in the tympanum of the ear.
▸ Also see promontory


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