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continental slope
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun continental slope has 1 sense
- continental slope(n = noun.object) bathyal district, bathyal zone - the steep descent of the seabed from the continental shelf to the abyssal zone; 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 slope
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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