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Keywords: Bay, Partly, Ocean, Sea, Mexico

Related Terms: Ocean, Atoll, Bathymetric, Bathymetry, Bay, Bore, Cape, Coast, Fjord, Headland, Littoral, Marine, Maritime, Sea, Shore, Sound, Spit, Strand, Oceanic, Makai, Shoreline, Tombolo, Littoral Zone, Tidal Bore, Territorial Sea, Offshore, Coastline, Coastal Plain, Dead Sea, Backshore, Barrier Beach, Pelagic Zone, Intertidal Zone, Embayment, Barrier Island, Inland Waters, Outer Continental Shelf, Coastal Waters, Suez Canal, Marginal Sea, Coastal Zone, Raised Beach, Ocs, Intercoastal, Neritic Zone, Ahupua'a, Offshore Waters, Sargasso Sea, Intracoastal Waterway, Coastal Flooding

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A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially land-locked sea; as, the Gulf of Mexico.

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A large deposit of ore in a lode.

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an unusual term locally; used to indicate a large opening in a highland area; a large cove or valley: Savage Gulf.

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a body of water (a part of a lake or ocean) surrounded by land on three sides. A gulf generally occupies an area larger than a bay and may itself contains one or more bays. bay meteorology

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Keywords: Chasm, Whirlpool, Abyss, Irretrievably, Gullet

Related Terms: Atoll, Bay, Cape, Deep, Fiord, Fjord, Gulf, Headland, Neritic, Promontory, Roadstead, Shelf, Sound, Spit, Trench, Oceanic, Oceanic Trench, Makai, Seamount, Submarine Canyon, Tombolo, Continental Margin, Continental Shelf, Continental Slope, Abyssal, Oceanic Ridge, Island Arc, Mid-Ocean Ridge, Offshore, Subtidal, Coastal Plain, Backshore, Barrier Beach, Embayment, Barrier Island, Abyssal Zone, Bathyal Zone, Outer Continental Shelf, Mudflat, Abyssal Plain, Guyot, Marginal Sea, Sea Stack, Coastal Zone, Ocs, Intercoastal, Neritic Zone, Bathypelagic Zone, Sargasso Sea, Cuspate Foreland

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A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin,

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That which swallows; the gullet.

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That which swallows irretrievably; a whirlpool; a sucking eddy.

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a deep wide chasm

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