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Definition of bommie in English: bommienounˈbɒmi 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. |