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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of living only within a narrow range of water depths. Used of an aquatic organism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a narrow range of depth: said of animals living in the water between definite limits of depth, as contrasted with
eurybathic (which see).
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[steno– + Greek bathos, depth + –ic.]
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