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BAY OF FUNDY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A bay of the North Atlantic between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; noted for rapid tides as great as 70 feet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
bay; embayment (an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf)
Holonyms ("Bay of Fundy" is a part of...):
Atlantic; Atlantic Ocean (the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east)