BAIKAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Baikal mean? 

• BAIKAL (noun)
  The noun BAIKAL has 1 sense:

1. the largest freshwater lake in Asia or Europe and the deepest lake in the world

  Familiarity information: BAIKAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAIKAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest freshwater lake in Asia or Europe and the deepest lake in the world

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Baikal; Baykal; Lake Baikal; Lake Baykal

Instance hypernyms:

lake (a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land)

Holonyms ("Baikal" is a part of...):

Siberia (a vast Asian region of Russia; famous for long cold winters)

 Context examples 

Others, such as Lake Baikal in Russia, are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)

In Lake Baikal, algae blooms threaten what scientists call an extraordinary biodiversity of the nearshore benthos, or bottom zone.

(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)

Unfortunately, increasing nutrient concentrations and the consequences of eutrophication have been recorded for most of the ancient lakes, including Victoria (on the border of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda), Baikal (Russia), Valencia (Venezuela), Titicaca (Peru) and Ohrid (Macedonia).

(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)