BAFFIN BAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Baffin Bay mean? 

• BAFFIN BAY (noun)
  The noun BAFFIN BAY has 1 sense:

1. a body of water between Greenland and northeastern Canada; connected with the Arctic Ocean to the north and with the Atlantic Ocean (via the Labrador Sea) to the south; icebound in winter

  Familiarity information: BAFFIN BAY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAFFIN BAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A body of water between Greenland and northeastern Canada; connected with the Arctic Ocean to the north and with the Atlantic Ocean (via the Labrador Sea) to the south; icebound in winter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)

 Context examples 

While impossible to determine exact provenance, the researchers detected a shift in European walrus finds around the 13th century to walruses from an evolutionary branch most prevalent in the waters around Baffin Bay.

(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)