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- noun Plural form of
lagoon .
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Chamela-Cuixmala (Jalisco): a Pacific Coast dry tropical forest harboring iguanas and crocodiles in lagoons and marshes.
Did you know? Mexico has over thirty UNESCO-designated biosphere reserves 2008
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Chamela-Cuixmala (Jalisco): a Pacific Coast dry tropical forest harboring iguanas and crocodiles in lagoons and marshes.
Did you know? Mexico has over thirty UNESCO-designated biosphere reserves 2008
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Enjoying the water spray as the sun rises over the lagoons is bittersweet.
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Baja California lagoons are an important wintering site for grey whales and birds and a significant nesting area for three of the world's seven marine turtle species.
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For example, the practice of disposing hog waste in large lagoons, which is common practice among larger hog operations, has been linked to water pollution and is coming under increasing pressure in the U.S. and abroad.
Mexican Officials Hope Early Swine Flu Case Can Yield Clues 2009
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"Farmers are focusing on managing the excretions by putting caps on the lagoons, which is where the waste is stored," said UC Davis air-quality specialist Frank Mitloehner, the study's lead author.
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There are a few small holes, called lagoons, the remains of ancient rivers, met with now and then; and strange to say, one of such holes will be found to contain salt sea-water, whilst another, within a very few yards of it, has water quite fresh, or nearly so.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various
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On one of the lagoons is a rather artistic Chinese temple of concrete, well built and in good repair.
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The city on the lagoons is the next town to be considered, for Verona has scarcely a cuisine of its own, and Padua sends its best food to the
The Gourmet's Guide to Europe Algernon Bastard 1885
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In the earlier times, hunting in the lagoons was a favorite diversion; but as the decay of the
Venetian Life William Dean Howells 1878
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