MINAMATA BAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Minamata Bay mean? 

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

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MINAMATA BAY (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)