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Noun: Coral Sea
  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
    - battle of the Coral Sea

Type of: naval battle, sea

Part of: Pacific, Pacific Ocean, Second World War, World War 2, World War II

Encyclopedia: Coral Sea, Queensland