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LAKE EYRE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A shallow salt lake in south central Australia about 35 feet below sea level; the largest lake in the country and the lowest point on the continent
Synonyms:
Eyre; Lake Eyre
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
lake (a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land)
Holonyms ("Lake Eyre" is a part of...):
Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)
Australia (the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean)
