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SHELFY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

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Meaning:

Full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals

Example:

shoaly waters

Synonyms:

reefy; shelfy; shelvy; shoaly

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

shallow (lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center)

Derivation:

shelf (a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water)

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