adriatic

Adjective, Noun

A=dri=at=ic

WORDNET DICTIONARY

adriatic(n = noun.object) adriatic sea - an arm of the Mediterranean between Slovenia and Croatia and Montenegro and Albania on the east and Italy on the west;

has parts: gulf of venice

is a part of mediterranean, mediterranean sea

is a kind of sea

adriatic, a. [L. Adriaticus, Hadriaticus, fr. Adria or Hadria, a town of the Veneti.].

Of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the Gulf of Venice. [1913 Webster]

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