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RELATED WORDS : continental continental army continental breakfast continental congress continental divide continental drift continental drive continental glacier continental plan continental pronunciation continental quilt continental slope continental system ice shelf on the shelf shelf shelf bracket shelf fungus shelf ice shelf life

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Noun continental shelf has 1 sense

• continental shelf(n = noun.object) Array - the relatively shallow (up to 200 meters) seabed surrounding a continent; Array
is a kind of davy jones, davy jones's locker, ocean bottom, ocean floor, sea bottom, sea floor, seabed

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continental shelf

Lake

N gulf, lake, land covered with water, gulf, gulph, bay, inlet, bight, estuary, arm of the sea, bayou, fiord, armlet, frith, firth, ostiary, mouth, lagune, lagoon, indraught, cove, creek, natural harbor, roads, strait, narrows, Euripus, sound, belt, gut, kyles, continental slope, continental shelf, lake, loch, lough, mere, tarn, plash, broad, pond, pool, lin, puddle, slab, well, artesian well, standing water, dead water, sheet of water, fish pond, mill pond, ditch, dike, dyke, dam, reservoir, alberca, barachois, hog wallow, lacustrine.

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