headlanded en · ADJ
Etymology
From headland + -ed.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Having a headland or headlands.
There are headlanded rocky shores, sandy and mixed sand/gravel beaches, beaches of quartzto/feldspathic and iron sands, huge sand barriers, dune fields, coastal lagoons, tidal inlets, river mouths, fiords, and a continental shelf […]
2003, James R. Goff, Scott Nichol, Helen L. Rouse, The New Zealand Coast, page 297:The many-headlanded, the temple-crowned, / Which the great purple sea so whispered round
1884, Bayard Taylor, Melodies of Verse, page 55: