embayment
English Thesaurus
1. an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf (noun.object)
| hypernym | : | body of water, water, |
| definition | : | the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean) (noun.object) |
| hyponym | : | bight, |
| definition | : | a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline (noun.object) |
| hyponym | : | guantanamo bay, |
| definition | : | an inlet of the Caribbean Sea; a United States naval station was established on the bay in 1903 (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | abukir, abukir bay, |
| definition | : | a bay on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | andaman sea, |
| definition | : | part of the Bay of Bengal to the west of the Malay Peninsula (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | bay of bengal, |
| definition | : | an arm of the Indian Ocean to the east of India (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | bay of biscay, |
| definition | : | an arm of the Atlantic Ocean in western Europe; bordered by the west coast of France and the north coast of Spain (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | bay of fundy, |
| definition | : | a bay of the North Atlantic between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; noted for rapid tides as great as 70 feet (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | bay of naples, |
| definition | : | an arm of the Tyrrhenian Sea at Naples (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | biscayne bay, |
| definition | : | a narrow bay formed by an inlet from the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Florida (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | bo hai, po hai, |
| definition | : | an inlet of the Yellow Sea, on the coast of Eastern China (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | buzzards bay, |
| definition | : | an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in southeastern Massachusetts (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | cape cod bay, |
| definition | : | the southern part of Massachusetts Bay (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | chesapeake bay, |
| definition | : | a large inlet of the North Atlantic between Virginia and Maryland; fed by Susquehanna River (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | delaware bay, |
| definition | : | an inlet of the North Atlantic; fed by the Delaware River (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | galveston bay, |
| definition | : | an arm of the Gulf of Mexico in Texas to the south of Houston (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | galway bay, |
| definition | : | a bay of the North Atlantic on the west coast of Ireland (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | hangzhou bay, |
| definition | : | a bay formed by an inlet of the East China Sea (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | james bay, |
| definition | : | the southern extension of Hudson Bay in Canada between western Quebec and northeastern Ontario (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | korea bay, |
| definition | : | an inlet of the Yellow Sea between the Liaodong Peninsula in China and western Korea (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | massachusetts bay, |
| definition | : | an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean off of eastern Massachusetts extending from Cape Ann on the north to Cape Cod on the south (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | minamata bay, |
| definition | : | a bay on the west coast of Kyushu; in the 1950s industrial wastes caused mercury poisoning among the Japanese people who ate fish from Minamata Bay (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | mobile bay, |
| definition | : | a bay of the Gulf of Mexico; fed by the Mobile River (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | monterey bay, |
| definition | : | an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in western California (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | moreton bay, |
| definition | : | an arm of the Tasman Sea forming a bay to the east of Brisbane (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | narragansett bay, |
| definition | : | a deep inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in Rhode Island (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | new york bay, |
| definition | : | a bay of the North Atlantic; fed by the Hudson River (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | osaka bay, |
| definition | : | a bay of the western Pacific in southern Honshu (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | penobscot bay, |
| definition | : | an inlet of the Atlantic in eastern Maine (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | prudhoe bay, |
| definition | : | a bay on the northern coast of Alaska where oil was discovered in 1968 (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | san diego bay, |
| definition | : | a bay of the Pacific in southern California (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | san francisco bay, |
| definition | : | a bay of the Pacific in western California (noun.object) |
| instance hyponym | : | tampa bay, |
| definition | : | an arm of the Gulf of Mexico in west central Florida (noun.object) |
| part meronym | : | sea, |
| definition | : | a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land (noun.object) |
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