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water body

Definition:
Any mass of water having definite hydrological, physical, chemical and biological characteristics and which can be employed for one or several purposes. (Source: FLGISA)
broader terms
hydrosphere
narrower terms
aquifer
  water bottom
Scope note:
scope note is not available
Groups:
HYDROSPHERE (freshwater, marine water, waters)
Themes:
soil
water
Other relations:
Wikipedia article
Body of water
Arabic: كيان مائي
Basque: ur-masa
Bulgarian: Воден обект
Catalan: cos aquós
Chinese: 水体
Croatian: voda
Czech: plocha vodní
Danish: vandmasse
Dutch: waterlichaam
English (US): water body
Estonian: veekogu
Finnish: vesialue
French: entité hydrologique
German: Wasserkörper
Greek: υδάτινη μάζα
Hungarian: víztömeg/víztest
Irish: dobharlach
Italian: corpo idrico
Latvian: ūdenstilpne
Lithuanian: vandens telkinys
Maltese: korp tal-ilma
Norwegian: vannmasse
Polish: wody
Portuguese: massa de água
Romanian: autoritate hidrologică
Russian: водоем
Slovak: vodný útvar
Slovenian: vodno telo
Spanish: cuerpo acuoso
Swedish: vattenförekomst
Turkish: su kütlesi
Ukrainian: водойма
Concept URL: <http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/9151>