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GULF OF MEXICO
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico
Synonyms:
Golfo de Mexico; Gulf of Mexico
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
gulf (an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay)
Meronyms (parts of "Gulf of Mexico"):
Galveston Bay (an arm of the Gulf of Mexico in Texas to the south of Houston)
Gulf Coast (a seashore of the Gulf of Mexico)
Bay of Campeche; Golfo de Campeche; Gulf of Campeche (a part of the Gulf of Mexico to the west of Yucatan)
Mobile Bay (a bay of the Gulf of Mexico; fed by the Mobile River)
Tampa Bay (an arm of the Gulf of Mexico in west central Florida)
Holonyms ("Gulf of Mexico" 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)
Context examples:
The buoy, created with the assistance of a grant from NSF's Ocean Technology and Interdisciplinary Coordination program, was installed off Egmont Key in the Gulf of Mexico and has been producing data on the three-dimensional motion of the sea floor.
(Geoscientists develop technology to improve forecasting of earthquakes, tsunamis, National Science Foundation)
Before 2011, most of the free floating Sargassum in the ocean was primarily found in patches around the Gulf of Mexico and Sargasso Sea.
(Satellites Find Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World, NASA)
The annual dead zone measurement is used by the Gulf of Mexico/Mississippi River Watershed Nutrient Task Force to determine whether efforts to reduce nutrient pollution in the Mississippi River basin are working.
(Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ is the largest ever measured, NOAA)
Scientists have found this year’s Gulf of Mexico dead zone — an area of low to no oxygen that can kill fish and marine life — is, at 6,474 square miles, above average in size and larger than forecast by NOAA in June.
(2015 Gulf of Mexico dead zone ‘above average’, NOAA)
As part of an unusual mortality event investigation, a team of scientists has discovered that dead bottlenose dolphins stranded in the northern Gulf of Mexico since the start of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill have lung and adrenal lesions consistent with petroleum product exposure.
(Deepwater Horizon oil spill contributed to high number of Gulf dolphin deaths, NOAA)
An unprecedented belt of brown algae stretches from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico—and it’s likely here to stay.
(Satellites Find Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World, NASA)
Scientists have determined this year’s Gulf of Mexico “dead zone,” an area of low oxygen that can kill fish and marine life, is 8,776 square miles, an area about the size of New Jersey.
(Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ is the largest ever measured, NOAA)
In 2018, more than 20 million tons of it floated in surface waters and became a problem to shorelines lining the tropical Atlantic, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and east coast of Florida.
(Satellites Find Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World, NASA)
