sea - a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by landAdriatic, Adriatic Sea - an arm of the Mediterranean between Slovenia and Croatia and Montenegro and Albania on the east and Italy on the west Aegean, Aegean Sea - an arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey; a main trade route for the ancient civilizations of Crete and Greece and Rome and Persia Arabian Sea - a northwestern arm of the Indian Ocean between India and Arabia Arafura Sea - a part of the western Pacific Ocean north of Australia and south of New Guinea and the eastern islands of Indonesia Baffin Bay - a body of water between Greenland and northeastern Canada; connected with the Arctic Ocean to the north and with the Atlantic Ocean (via the Labrador Sea) to the south; icebound in winter Barents Sea - the part of the Arctic Ocean north of Norway and Russia bay - an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf Bering Sea - part of the North Pacific between Alaska and Siberia; connected to the Arctic Ocean by the Bering Strait Bismarck Sea - an arm of the South Pacific southwest of the Bismarck Archipelago Black Sea, Euxine Sea - a sea between Europe and Asia; a popular resort area of eastern Europeans body of water, water - the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean); "they invaded our territorial waters"; "they were sitting by the water's edge" Caribbean, Caribbean Sea - an arm of the Atlantic Ocean between North and South America; the origin of the Gulf stream Coral Sea - an arm of the South Pacific northeast of Australia gulf - an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay hydrosphere - the watery layer of the earth's surface; includes water vapor Inland Sea - an arm of the Pacific Ocean in southern Japan; surrounded by the islands of Honshu and Shikoku and Kyushu and linked to the Sea of Japan by a narrow channel; the chief port is Hiroshima inlet, recess - an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands) Ionian Sea - an arm of the Mediterranean Sea between western Greece and southern Italy Irish Sea - an arm of the North Atlantic between Great Britain and Ireland Kara Sea - part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia and east of the Barents Sea; icebound most of the year Labrador Sea - an arm of the northern Atlantic between Labrador and southern Greenland Laptev Sea - part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia (between the Taimyr Peninsula and the New SiberianIslands) that is icebound most of the year Ligurian Sea - an arm of the Mediterranean between northwest Italy and Corsica North Sea - an arm of the North Atlantic between the British Isles and Scandinavia; oil was discovered under the North Sea in 1970 Norwegian Sea - the part of the Atlantic that lies off the Norwegian coast north of the North Sea Red Sea - a long arm of the Indian Ocean between northeast Africa and Arabia; linked to the Mediterranean at the north end by the Suez Canal Ross Sea - an arm of the southern Pacific Ocean in Antarctica Sargasso Sea - a vast area of the North Atlantic from the West Indies to the Azores that is dense with gulfweed Sea of Japan - an arm of the Pacific between China and Japan South China Sea - a tropical arm of the Pacific Ocean near southeastern Asia subject to frequent typhoons South Sea - any sea south of the equator (but especially the South Pacific) Tasman Sea - an arm of the southern Pacific Ocean between southeastern Australia and New Zealand |