Usually means: Open water surrounded by ice.
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  1. polynya: Merriam-Webster
  2. polynya: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. polynya: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. polynya: Collins English Dictionary
  5. polynya: Vocabulary.com
  6. polynya: Wordnik
  7. polynya: Wiktionary
  8. polynya: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. polynya: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. polynya: Dictionary.com
  11. Polynya (disambiguation), Polynya: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. polynya: FreeDictionary.org
  13. polynya: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. polynya: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. polyn'ya: Encyclopedia

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  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (polynya)

▸ noun:  (hydrology, oceanography) A naturally formed transient area of open water surrounded by sea ice, especially in polar or subpolar seas.

Similar:
polygonboden, watersky, playa, subnivium, field ice, polar desert, pogonip, ice-out, North Water, ice cap, more...

Opposite:
seice, ice pack, ice floe

Types:
coastal, land-fast, open-ocean, pond, fjord, more...

Adjectives:
coastal, large, latent, small, sensible, driven, persistent, central, arctic

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Similar:
polygonboden, watersky, playa, subnivium, field ice, polar desert, pogonip, ice-out, North Water, ice cap, more...

Opposite:
seice, ice pack, ice floe

Types:
coastal, land-fast, open-ocean, pond, fjord, more...

Adjectives:
coastal, large, latent, small, sensible, driven, persistent, central, arctic



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