ACOUSTIC BUOY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A buoy that can be heard (at night)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("acoustic buoy" is a kind of...):

buoy (bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "acoustic buoy"):

bell buoy; gong buoy (a buoy with a bell on it)

whistle buoy; whistling buoy (a buoy that makes a whistling noise)

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