GREENLAND SEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Greenland Sea mean? 

• GREENLAND SEA (noun)
  The noun GREENLAND SEA has 1 sense:

1. part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Iceland

  Familiarity information: GREENLAND SEA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREENLAND SEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Iceland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)

Holonyms ("Greenland Sea" is a part of...):

Arctic Ocean (ice covered waters surrounding the North Pole; mostly covered with solid ice or with ice floes and icebergs)

 Context examples 

A country in northern Europe, island between the Greenland Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, northwest of the UK.

(Iceland, NCI Thesaurus)