MORETON BAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Moreton Bay mean? 

• MORETON BAY (noun)
  The noun MORETON BAY has 1 sense:

1. an arm of the Tasman Sea forming a bay to the east of Brisbane

  Familiarity information: MORETON BAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MORETON BAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An arm of the Tasman Sea forming a bay to the east of Brisbane

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

bay; embayment (an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf)

Holonyms ("Moreton Bay" is a part of...):

Queensland (a state in northeastern Australia)

Australia (the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean)