FLOATING MINE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

An explosive mine designed to destroy ships that bump into it

Synonyms:

floating mine; marine mine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("floating mine" is a kind of...):

mine (explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "floating mine"):

magnetic mine ((nautical) a marine mine that is detonated by a mechanism that responds to magnetic material (as the steel hull of a ship))