LAKE BAIKAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lake Baikal mean? 

• LAKE BAIKAL (noun)
  The noun LAKE BAIKAL has 1 sense:

1. the largest freshwater lake in Asia or Europe and the deepest lake in the world

  Familiarity information: LAKE BAIKAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAKE BAIKAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest freshwater lake in Asia or Europe and the deepest lake in the world

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Baikal; Baykal; Lake Baikal; Lake Baykal

Instance hypernyms:

lake (a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land)

Holonyms ("Lake Baikal" is a part of...):

Siberia (a vast Asian region of Russia; famous for long cold winters)

 Context examples 

Others, such as Lake Baikal in Russia, are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)

In Lake Baikal, algae blooms threaten what scientists call an extraordinary biodiversity of the nearshore benthos, or bottom zone.

(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)