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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the steep descent of the seabed from the continental shelf to the abyssal zone;
[syn: continental slope, bathyal zone, bathyal district]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

continental slope n 1: the steep descent of the seabed from the continental shelf to the abyssal zone [syn: continental slope, bathyal zone, bathyal district]