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Word: Bathyscaphe
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
1940s: coined in French by its inventor, Auguste Piccard, from Greek bathus ‘deep’ + skaphos ‘ship’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈbaθɪskaf
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a manned submersible vessel of a kind used by the Swiss deep-sea explorer Auguste Piccard (1884–1962).
Short Definition:manned submersible vessel of kind used by Swiss deep-sea explorer Auguste Piccard
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