LAGUNA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does laguna mean? 

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

1. a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAGUNA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

lagoon; laguna; lagune

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "laguna"):

liman (a long narrow lagoon near the mouth of a river)