Fort Myers Word Search
Play a Fort Myers word search free online. We built the 12-word list around landmarks, neighborhoods, and local flavor, then scattered it across a 15×15 grid — horizontal, vertical and diagonal. Find them all to clear the board.
Words to find: CALOOSAHATCHEE, EDISON, SANIBEL, CAPTIVA, MATLACHA, MANGROVE, MANATEE, PELICAN, DOLPHIN, ESTUARY, WATERFRONT, MCGREGOR.
Words run in any of eight directions, backwards included — if one refuses to turn up, try reading the grid right to left.
Fort Myers word list, defined
- MANGROVE /ˈmæŋɡroʊv/ · noun
- A mangrove is a tree or shrub that grows in tropical or subtropical coastal, intertidal areas where salt water or highly saline soil is present. Mangroves typically have specialized roots that help them tolerate saturated, salty environments.
- MANATEE /ˌmænəˈtiː/ · noun
- A large, herbivorous marine mammal with a rounded body, paddle-shaped flippers, and a broad, whiskered snout, found in warm coastal waters of the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the southeastern United States. Manatees are also called sea cows because of their grazing habits and resemblance to cows. Related: sea cow.
- PELICAN /ˈpɛlɪkən/ · noun
- A large waterbird with long legs, webbed feet, and a long bill expanded into a conspicuous throat pouch. Pelicans live chiefly in coastal and inland waters and feed mainly on fish.
- DOLPHIN /ˈdɒlfɪn/ (British); /ˈdɑːlfɪn/ (US) · noun
- A highly intelligent marine mammal of the family Delphinidae, having a streamlined body, a beaklike snout, and a dorsal fin, known for its playful behaviour and social nature. The word can also refer to certain large food fish (the mahi-mahi, or dolphinfish) unrelated to the mammal. Related: porpoise.
- ESTUARY /ˈɛstʃuəri/ (British), /ˈɛstʃuːˌɛri/ (US) · noun
- The tidal mouth of a large river where the tide meets the stream and the water is partly salt and partly fresh; a broad, often funnel-shaped arm of the sea at a river's lower course. Related: inlet, firth, sound, bay.
- WATERFRONT /ˈwɔːtə(r)frʌnt/ · noun; also a rare transitive verb
- The land immediately adjoining a body of water, especially a river, lake, harbor, or sea; by extension, a district or development occupying such a shore. Related: waterside, shore, shoreline, bank.
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