sand boil (English, noun)
expansion: sand boil (plural sand boils)
Senses:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An eruption of water through a bed of sand due, for instance, to seismic activity, or to differences in water pressure on two sides of a levee which causes water to penetrate beneath the levee.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A boil which forms when sand particles enter and irritate the skin.
tags: rare
Forms:
form: sand boils
tags: plural