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mediterranean seas

mediterranean seas is the plural of mediterranean sea.

Meaning of mediterranean sea

Noun

mediterranean sea (plural mediterranean seas)

  1. A mostly enclosed sea that has limited exchange of deep water with outer oceans, and where the water circulation is dominated by salinity and temperature differences rather than winds.
    • To this day they haue not diſouered at the Indies any Mediterranean Sea, as in Europe, Aſia, and Affrica, into the which there enters ſome arme of this great Sea, and makes diſtinct Seas, taking their names from the Prouinces they waſh: and almoſt all of the Mediterranean Seas continue and ioyne...1604, Joseph Acosta [i.e., José de Acosta], “Of the Ocean that Invirons the Indies, and of the North and South Seas”, in E[dward] G[rimeston], transl., The Naturall and Morall Historie of the East...

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What is mediterranean seas the plural of?
Mediterranean seas is the plural of mediterranean sea.

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