HYDROSPHERE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hydrosphere mean? 

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

1. the watery layer of the earth's surface; includes water vapor

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYDROSPHERE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The watery layer of the earth's surface; includes water vapor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("hydrosphere" is a kind of...):

layer (a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another)

Meronyms (parts of "hydrosphere"):

body of water; water (the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean))

briny; main (any very large body of (salt) water)

ocean (a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere)

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

Part meronym:

earth; globe; world (the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on)