Definition of bommie in English:

bommie

nounˈbɒmi

Australian informal

A submerged offshore reef.
it's an isolated bommie that rises 30m from the sandy seabed
Example sentencesExamples
- As the name attests, only the most experienced dive operators know how to find Elusive Bommie.
- At that bommie, we watched a manta swimming off into the distance.
- There was a bommie displaying an intense array of amazing soft corals, smothered with layers of purple and orange fish.
- We were moored off the bommie, off Papua New Guinea in the Bismarck Sea, and it was a cloudy night.
- It's is a small bommie at the end of the reef, joined by a low saddle of coral.
- Like many of the sites, this bommie was rather unprepossessing above water, but below it was a different matter entirely.
- Just 50 metres in diameter, the bommie could easily be circumnavigated several times.
- It's a typical Aussie coral bommie, beautiful but compact.
- Our dive site was the top of a bommie, 25 metres deep, a short swim away from the wall.
- He led us out into the blue to the bommie, which rose from the depths.

Origin

1940s: abbreviation of bombora.

单词	bommie
释义	Definition of bommie in English: bommie nounˈbɒmi Australian informal A submerged offshore reef. it's an isolated bommie that rises 30m from the sandy seabed Example sentencesExamples As the name attests, only the most experienced dive operators know how to find Elusive Bommie. At that bommie, we watched a manta swimming off into the distance. There was a bommie displaying an intense array of amazing soft corals, smothered with layers of purple and orange fish. We were moored off the bommie, off Papua New Guinea in the Bismarck Sea, and it was a cloudy night. It's is a small bommie at the end of the reef, joined by a low saddle of coral. Like many of the sites, this bommie was rather unprepossessing above water, but below it was a different matter entirely. Just 50 metres in diameter, the bommie could easily be circumnavigated several times. It's a typical Aussie coral bommie, beautiful but compact. Our dive site was the top of a bommie, 25 metres deep, a short swim away from the wall. He led us out into the blue to the bommie, which rose from the depths. Origin 1940s: abbreviation of bombora.
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