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MARINE MUSEUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tank or pool or bowl filled with water for keeping live fish and underwater animals
Synonyms:
aquarium; fish tank; marine museum
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("marine museum" is a kind of...):
storage tank; tank (a large (usually metallic) vessel for holding gases or liquids)
vivarium (an indoor enclosure for keeping and raising living animals and plants and observing them under natural conditions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "marine museum"):
fish bowl; fishbowl; goldfish bowl (a transparent bowl in which small fish are kept)
Instance hyponyms:
Marineland (a commercial aquarium featuring trained dolphins)
