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GREAT AUSTRALIAN BIGHT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A wide bay of the Indian Ocean in southern Australia; notorious for storms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
bight (a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline)
Holonyms ("Great Australian Bight" is a part of...):
Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)
Australia (the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean)
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