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Coral Sea

–noun

a part of the S Pacific, bounded by NE Australia, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the New Hebrides: U.S. naval victory over the Japanese, May 1942.

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Coral Sea
An arm of the southwest Pacific Ocean bounded by northeast Australia, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu. It was the scene of a U.S. World War II naval victory in May 1942.

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coral sea
noun
1.	an arm of the South Pacific to the northeast of Australia
2.	a Japanese defeat in World War II (May 1942); the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers

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