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MEDITERRANEAN SEA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia

Synonyms:

Mediterranean; Mediterranean Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)

Meronyms (parts of "Mediterranean Sea"):

Tyrrhenian Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean between Italy and the islands of Corsica and Sardinia and Sicily)

Perejil (a small uninhabited Mediterranean islet claimed by both Morocco and Spain)

Ligurian Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean between northwest Italy and Corsica)

Ionian Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean Sea between western Greece and southern Italy)

Gulf of Sidra (wide inlet of the Mediterranean Sea on the north coast of Libya)

Gulf of Antalya (a gulf of the Mediterranean Sea in southwestern Turkey)

Aegean; Aegean Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey; a main trade route for the ancient civilizations of Crete and Greece and Rome and Persia)

Adriatic; Adriatic Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean between Slovenia and Croatia and Montenegro and Albania on the east and Italy on the west)

Abukir; Abukir Bay (a bay on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt)

Malta (a strategically located island to the south of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea)

Corse; Corsica (an island in the Mediterranean; with adjacent islets it constitutes a region of France)

Sicilia; Sicily (the largest island in the Mediterranean)

Sardegna; Sardinia (an island in the Mediterranean to the west of Italy)

Aegadean Islands; Aegadean Isles; Aegates; Egadi Islands; Isole Egadi (a group of islands off the west coast of Sicily in the Mediterranean)

Crete; Kriti (the largest Greek island in the Mediterranean; site of the Minoan civilization that reached its peak in 1600 BC)

Cyprus (an island in the eastern Mediterranean)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Mediterranean Sea"):

mare nostrum ((our sea) the Mediterranean to the ancient Romans)

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 Context examples: 

In addition to carbon and nitrogen isotope measurements, sulphide values ​​were also recorded for the El Barranquete samples, to achieve a more accurate picture of the role played by foods of marine origin, given that this necropolis is just a few kilometres from the Mediterranean Sea.

(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)

The continent whose boundaries are the Atlantic Ocean in the west, the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Ural Mountains and Ural River in the east, the Caspian Sea, Caucasus mountains and Black Sea in the southeast and the Mediterranean Sea in the south.

(Europe, NCI Thesaurus)