body of water

C291
concept

A body of water is a naturally or artificially formed, relatively distinct accumulation of water—such as a lake, sea, river, or pond—occupying a definable area on the Earth's surface.

All labels observed (105)

Label Occurrences
bay 1,242
waterfall 702
body of water canonical 648

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: body of water
Generated description
A body of water is a naturally or artificially formed, relatively distinct accumulation of water—such as a lake, sea, river, or pond—occupying a definable area on the Earth's surface.

Instances (4,341)

Instance Via concept surface
Youghiogheny River Gorge natural feature
Java Sea marginal sea
Port Gardner Bay bay
Hubbard Park Reservoir
English Bay bay
Amu Darya Delta river delta
Macajalar Bay bay
Maria Cristina Falls in Iligan
surface form: Maria Cristina Falls
waterfall
Paradise Falls waterfall
Pegwell Bay bay
Bay of Islands bay
Milford Sound fjord
Northport Harbor coastal inlet
Adriatic Sea sea
Capitol Reflecting Pool reflecting pool
Gulf of La Spezia bay
Poole
surface form: Poole Harbour
natural harbour
Toroneos Gulf coastal inlet
Lundarvågen bay
Sepetiba Bay bay
Keston Ponds freshwater body of water
Bay of Chetumal bay
Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta river delta
Blair Waterway industrial waterway
Ozette Lake natural feature
Dollart Bay bay
Perdido Bay bay
Sinclair Inlet bay
Seine inland waterway inland waterway
Grand Bassin Rond fountain
Trevi Fountain fountain
Iligan Bay bay
San Pedro Bay bay
Bear Lake natural feature
Tagus River
“Mosi-oa-Tunya” in the Lozi language
surface form: Mosi-oa-Tunya
waterfall
Lower New York Bay bay
Van Cortlandt Lake
Yalong Bay bay
Dollard bay
Jaco Strait
Grand Bassin Octogonal water feature
IJ river
surface form: IJ
lower Don River river section
Clyde estuary
Ohanapecosh natural feature
Loch Ryan sea loch
Inside Passage coastal waterway
Copper River Delta river delta
Taiwan Strait