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alimentary canal |
the tube in the body through which food travels as it is digested. The alimentary canal goes from the mouth to the anus, and includes the esophagus, the stomach, and the small and large intestines. |
canal |
A canal is something like a river, but it is made by people. Boats can travel up and down canals. Canals are typically created in order to link one body of water with another. |
lock1 |
part of a canal that is closed off with gates in order to change the level of water in an area. A lock lets a ship move safely from one level of water to another. [1/5 definitions] |
Panama |
Panama is a country in Central America. Panama is famous for the Panama Canal, which makes it possible for ships to go easily from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, or from the Pacific to the Atlantic. |
Panama Canal |
The Panama Canal is a canal that goes through a narrow part of Central America and makes a link between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. A canal is like a river, but it is made by people and machines. Before the Panama Canal was dug, ships had to go all the way around the continent of South America, in very cold and dangerous waters, to go from one of these oceans to the other. The canal was finished and ready for ships in 1914. It is owned by the country of Panama. |
Red Sea |
a part of the Indian Ocean. It lies between the Arabian Peninsula and East Africa. The Suez Canal connects it to the Mediterranean Sea. |
Suez Canal |
a canal in northeastern Egypt. It crosses the Isthmus of Suez and connects the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea. |
vagina |
in most female mammals, the passage leading from the uterus to the opening through which a baby is conceived and born; birth canal. |
waterway |
A waterway is a long body of water large enough for boats to travel on. It is a river or canal. |
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