IONIAN SEA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An arm of the Mediterranean Sea between western Greece and southern Italy

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 "Ionian Sea"):

Gulf of Corinth; Gulf of Lepanto (inlet of the Ionian Sea between central Greece and the Peloponnesus)

Holonyms ("Ionian Sea" is a part of...):

Mediterranean; Mediterranean Sea (the largest inland sea; between Europe and Africa and Asia)

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