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BATHYAL ZONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bathyal zone mean? 

BATHYAL ZONE (noun)
  The noun BATHYAL ZONE has 1 sense:

1. the steep descent of the seabed from the continental shelf to the abyssal zoneplay

  Familiarity information: BATHYAL ZONE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BATHYAL ZONE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The steep descent of the seabed from the continental shelf to the abyssal zone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

bathyal district; bathyal zone; continental slope

Hypernyms ("bathyal zone" is a kind of...):

Davy Jones; Davy Jones's locker; ocean bottom; ocean floor; sea bottom; sea floor; seabed (the bottom of a sea or ocean)


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