the ocean
Where whales swim
The ocean is the vast body of salt water covering most of Earth's surface—technically one continuous body, though divided by convention into the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, and Southern oceans.
The ocean often means whichever body of salt water is nearest: Let's go to the ocean this weekend.
An ocean of something is an immense quantity: an ocean of paperwork.
- octopusEight-limbed sea mollusk
- saltSodium chloride compound
- salty airSodium-laden coastal atmosphere
- wavesTraveling energy disturbances
- fishGilled aquatic vertebrate
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