"inshore" in the adjective sense
1. inshore, onshore, shoreward
of winds) coming from the sea toward the land
"an inshore breeze"
"an onshore gale"
2. inshore
close to a shore
"inshore fisheries"
"inshore" in the adverb sense
1. inshore
toward the shore
"we swam two miles inshore"
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