Minamata Bay

Definitions of Minamata Bay
  1. noun
    a bay on the west coast of Kyushu; in the 1950s industrial wastes caused mercury poisoning among the Japanese people who ate fish from Minamata Bay
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    bay, embayment
    an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf
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