An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable.
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The English Channel is a body of water lying between Great Britain and France.
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In a gentle breeze, the whole body of air, as far as the breeze extends, moves at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour; in a high wind, at the rate of seventy, eighty, or an hundred miles an hour […]
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1806 June 25, Thomas Paine, “The cause of Yellow Fever and the means of preventing it, in places not yet infected with it, addressed to the Board of Health in America”, in The political and miscellaneous works of Thomas Paine, page 179:
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Using three-dimensional seismic and well data from the northern North Sea, we describe a large (10 km3) body of sand and interpret it as extrusive.
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2012 March 19, Helge Løseth, Nuno Rodrigues, Peter R. Cobbold, “World's largest extrusive body of sand?”, in Geology, volume 40, number 5:
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The huge body of ice is in the southeastern edge of a Central Asian region called the Third Pole.
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2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns[1]: