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CONTINENTAL SLOPE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The steep descent of the seabed from the continental shelf to the abyssal zone
Synonyms:
bathyal district; bathyal zone; continental slope
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("continental slope" 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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