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SHELFY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does shelfy mean?
• SHELFY (adjective)
The adjective SHELFY has 1 sense:
1. full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals
Familiarity information: SHELFY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals
Synonyms:
Context example:
shoaly waters
Similar:
shallow (lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center)
Derivation:
shelf (a projecting ridge on a mountain or submerged under water)
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