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noun
A classification of sea inlet; a depression in the land flooded by the sea during the Holocene transgression and connected to the sea by a narrow passage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geography, natural-sciences, oceanography
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Borrowed from Arabic بَحْر (baḥr, “little sea”).
