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Where canoe may be floundering? (5)

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I believe the answer is:

ocean

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'where canoe may be floundering?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't see how they can define each other.

'where canoe' is the wordplay.
'where' indicates an anagram (I've seen this in other clues).
'canoe' is an anagram of 'OCEAN'.

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(Other definitions for ocean that I've seen before include "eg Indian, Pacific" , "Very large area of sea" , "lot of liquid" , "Huge body of water" , "It's pretty wet!" .)

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