CONTINENTAL SHELF as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • the relatively shallow (up to 200 meters) seabed surrounding a continent
   Hypernyms(s) continental shelf is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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