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PRUDHOE BAY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A bay on the northern coast of Alaska where oil was discovered in 1968
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 ("Prudhoe Bay" is a part of...):
AK; Alaska; Last Frontier (a state in northwestern North America; the 49th state admitted to the union)