WordNet
n. a plain adjacent to a coast
Wikipedia
A coastal plain is an area of flat, low-lying land adjacent to a seacoast. One of the world's largest coastal plains is located in eastern South America. The Gulf Coastal Plain of North America extends northwards from the Gulf of Mexico along the Lower Mississippi River to the Ohio River, which is a distance of about .
During the Cretaceous period, the central area of the United States was covered by a shallow sea, the Western Interior Seaway, which disappeared as the land rose. Large fossilized aquatic birds called Hesperornis and Ichthyornis, found in western Kansas, indicate that the shallow sea was rife with fish.
Usage examples of "coastal plain".
The President and the Congress will not stand for the Armed Forces not defending the coastal plains, especially the coastal plain cities.
All that wind from the sea had left the coastal plain smelling cool and clean as a whistle, with the salt grass dewy and lightly grazed this far out of town.
So it is, let us say, a hundred miles, from the Pacific to the coastal plain and then on to the Atlantic Ocean.
Down below the airbase was a pattern of harsh arc lights across the flat coastal plain on the Gut's northern shore.
Only one more range of foothills and a narrow coastal plain separated the aircraft from the sea.
At a guess, we'll go inland from here to go around the coast range and then to Sparta, and then swing around through the pass and down into the coastal plain and Ephesus.
The air was warm and close after Washington, but with a fresher scent coming in with the breeze off the coastal plain.
The view is glorious, and the road lies clear before them, all the way down to the coastal plain.
To the east the ground rose into rugged hill country and west the wooded coastal plain stretched into a haze of heat and dust.
Without even having to restore the sense of sight, he knew that he was standing on top of the high mountain pass that divided the desert from the coastal plain of North Khaybad, and that he was smelling the sea for the first time.
On one side are the colonial aristocracy, the rich and settled planters of the coastal plain.