Fundy
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7.2
- proper noun
- /ˈfʌndi/
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Bahía de Fundy
- Currently, the Bay of Fundy is among the twenty-eight finalists for the seven wonders of the world?
- the Bay of Fundy
Examples
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The Parrsboro Shore is a spectacular, rugged coastline with several picturesque rock formations carved out by the tides of Fundy at Economy and Five Islands, and there are several striking waterfalls not too far off the route.
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So, we get a couple of feet of tide in Florida and 40 feet in the Bay of Fundy, normally.
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Sampling the Bay of Fundy
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Rare whale population rebounds in the Bay of Fundy in Canada.
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The rare whales are rebounding at a rate of 2 percent per year in the Bay of Fundy.
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The estuaries of British Columbia and the Bay of Fundy in Canada are also home to many salmon-growing operations.
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In autumn, the land around the Bay of Fundy is a feeding and staging site for more than a million sandpipers and plovers headed for South America.
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Farm-raised salmon are grown in net pens in estuaries in Canada's Bay of Fundy and in British Columbia, and in coastal bays in Maine and Washington in the United States.
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Pohle also recently completed a 5-year study of the benthic organisms in and around salmon net pens at Letang Inlet, in the Bay of Fundy, home to one of the densest salmon operations on the Atlantic coast.
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The upper reaches of the Bay of Fundy boast the highest tides on Earth.
Synonyms
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4.4
A large bay in Canada between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia with very high tides
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Fundy may come from an old French or Portuguese root like fond or fundo meaning 'deep' or 'bottom', because the bay is very deep and has the world's highest tides. So the name reminds us of the bay's great depth and strong tides.