Definition of ocean

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Ocean (n.) The whole body of salt water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe; -- called also the sea, or great sea..

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Shearwater :: Shearwater (n.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged oceanic birds of the genus Puffinus and related genera. They are allied to the petrels, but are larger. The Manx shearwater (P. Anglorum), the dusky shearwater (P. obscurus), and the greater shearwater (P. major), are well-known species of the North Atlantic. See Hagdon..
Sunfish :: Sunfish (n.) A very large oceanic plectognath fish (Mola mola, Mola rotunda, or Orthagoriscus mola) having a broad body and a truncated tail..
Beach Comber :: Beach comber () A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See Comber..
Ocean :: Ocean (n.) One of the large bodies of water into which the great ocean is regarded as divided, as the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic oceans..
Gulf :: Gulf (n.) A portion of an ocean or sea extending into the land; a partially land-locked sea; as, the Gulf of Mexico..
Palmyra :: Palmyra (n.) A species of palm (Borassus flabelliformis) having a straight, black, upright trunk, with palmate leaves. It is found native along the entire northern shores of the Indian Ocean, from the mouth of the Tigris to New Guinea. More than eight hundred uses to which it is put are enumerated by native writers. Its wood is largely used for building purposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts..
Oceanology :: Oceanology (n.) That branch of science which relates to the ocean.
Main :: Main (v.) The great sea, as distinguished from an arm, bay, etc. ; the high sea; the ocean..
Mollemoke :: Mollemoke (n.) Any one of several species of large pelagic petrels and fulmars, as Fulmarus glacialis, of the North Atlantic, and several species of Aestrelata, of the Southern Ocean. See Fulmar..
Shovelnose :: Shovelnose (n.) A Pacific Ocean shark (Hexanchus corinus).
Wideness :: Wideness (n.) Large extent in all directions; broadness; greatness; as, the wideness of the sea or ocean..
River :: River (n.) A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook..
Pelagic :: Pelagic (a.) Of or pertaining to the ocean; -- applied especially to animals that live at the surface of the ocean, away from the coast..
Kurilian :: Kurilian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Kurile Islands, a chain of islands in the Pacific ocean, extending from the southern extremity of Kamschatka to Yesso..
Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To rise or be driven into waves or billows; to heave; as, in tempest, the ocean swells into waves..
Physiography :: Physiography (n.) The science which treats of the earth's exterior physical features, climate, life, etc., and of the physical movements or changes on the earth's surface, as the currents of the atmosphere and ocean, the secular variations in heat, moisture, magnetism, etc.; physical geography..
Interoceanic :: Interoceanic (a.) Between oceans; connecting oceans; as, interoceanic communication; an interoceanic canal..
Iceberg :: Iceberg (n.) A large mass of ice, generally floating in the ocean..
Transatlantic :: Transatlantic (a.) Crossing the Atlantic Ocean.
Marai :: Marai (n.) A sacred inclosure or temple; -- so called by the islanders of the Pacific Ocean.
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