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
Skala Bay bay
Dmitry Laptev Strait Arctic waterway
Hamoaze tidal waterway
Central Basin water body
Yarralumla Bay bay
Maunalua Bay bay
Fontana del Nettuno
surface form: Fontana del Nettuno (Piazza Navona)
fountain
Minoh Waterfall waterfall
Krammer
Condado Lagoon lagoon
Kent Falls waterfall
Admiralty Bay bay
Pampulha Lake lagoon
Atrato River delta river delta
Sea of the Hebrides sea
Wey Navigation inland waterway
Camotes Sea sea
High Falls
surface form: High Falls (Rochester)
waterfall
Channel sea
Mor Breizh sea
European continental shelf marine geographic region
Wheeler Lake
Samar Sea sea
Gulf of Valencia coastal embayment
San Francisco Bay bay
Bay of Swannay bay
Musselburgh Bay bay
Maho Bay bay
Caspian Sea inland sea
Lake Washington Ship Canal ship canal
Baffin Bay marginal sea
Panay Gulf
Athanasius Kircher fountain fountain
Fountain of Faith fountain
The Milles Fountain at Cranbrook fountain
The Woodrow Wilson Memorial in Geneva
surface form: Woodrow Wilson Memorial in Geneva
fountain
Rhine–Scheldt connection inland waterway
Volkerakmeer
Mundaú Lagoon
Bay of Pomerania bay
Nachi Falls waterfall
Paraguay–Paraná waterway system inland waterway
Chickamauga Lake
Guimaras Strait
Maxwell Bay bay
Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta river delta
Devil's Throat natural feature
Clark's Cove coastal inlet
Gulf of Kutch coastal water body
Poseidon Fountain fountain