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SHELFY

• SHELFY (adjective)
The adjective SHELFY has 1 sense:

1. full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals

Familiarity information: SHELFY used as an adjective is very rare.

• SHELFY (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Full of submerged reefs or sandbanks or shoals

Synonyms:

reefy; shelfy; shelvy; shoaly

Context examples:

reefy shallows / shoaly waters

Similar:

shallow (lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center)

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