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bomboora

bomboora is the obsolete spelling of bombora.

Meaning of bombora

Noun

bombora (plural bomboras)

  1. (Australia) A shallow isolated piece of reef located a distance offshore.
    • The superior local knowledge of the Easter Island boatmen was a distracting influence, but on the way in I had decided to anchor on the sandy patch close under the bombora.1963, Patrick Gordon Taylor, The Sky Beyond, page 269
    Synonyms:
    bomb

Forms of bomboora

pluralbombooras

Questions about bomboora

What is bomboora the obsolete spelling of?
Bomboora is the obsolete spelling of bombora.

Words near bomboora in the dictionary

  1. bomboloes
  2. bombolos
  3. Bombon
  4. bombonne
  5. bombonnes
  6. bomboora
  7. bombooras
  8. bombora
  9. bomboras
  10. bombous
  11. Bombowlee

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bomboora (page history and authors); bombora (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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