Minamata Bay (original) (raw)
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A bay on the west coast of Kyushu; in the 1950s industrial wastes caused mercury poisoning among the Japanese people who ate fish from Minamata Bay
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 ("Minamata Bay" is a part of...):
Kyushu (the southernmost of the four main islands of Japan; contains coal fields)