Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Living upon the bottom as distinguished from living in the water above; submarine; benthonic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective of, pertaining to, or occurring at the bottom of a body of water, especially referring to the ocean depths.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to the
benthos ; living on theseafloor , as opposed to floating in theocean .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or happening on the bottom under a body of water
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Examples
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Most likely, that will involve placing the mats, called benthic barriers, on the sandy lake bottom to smother the clams.
WBAY Action 2 News 2010
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Most likely, that will involve placing the mats, called benthic barriers, on the sandy lake bottom to smother the clams.
WTVM - 1- WTVM Home 2010
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Kerry Hackett works for a biotech company that has secretly created a "benthic," an artificial organism capable of shape-changing and much, much more.
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We did the usual things one does on such trips: we paddled around; we used seining nets to look for benthic macroinvertebrates; we tested the water for phosphates and nitrogen.
McKay Jenkins, Ph.D.: Canoes, But No Kayaks: Thoughts on Environmental Studies Ph.D. McKay Jenkins 2011
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We did the usual things one does on such trips: we paddled around; we used seining nets to look for benthic macroinvertebrates; we tested the water for phosphates and nitrogen.
McKay Jenkins, Ph.D.: Canoes, But No Kayaks: Thoughts on Environmental Studies Ph.D. McKay Jenkins 2011
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The little fry cook from Bikini Bottom, down in the benthic zone of the Pacific Ocean, has been with us longer than the iPod.
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We did the usual things one does on such trips: we paddled around; we used seining nets to look for benthic macroinvertebrates; we tested the water for phosphates and nitrogen.
McKay Jenkins, Ph.D.: Canoes, But No Kayaks: Thoughts on Environmental Studies Ph.D. McKay Jenkins 2011
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We did the usual things one does on such trips: we paddled around; we used seining nets to look for benthic macroinvertebrates; we tested the water for phosphates and nitrogen.
McKay Jenkins, Ph.D.: Canoes, But No Kayaks: Thoughts on Environmental Studies Ph.D. McKay Jenkins 2011
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We did the usual things one does on such trips: we paddled around; we used seining nets to look for benthic macroinvertebrates; we tested the water for phosphates and nitrogen.
McKay Jenkins, Ph.D.: Canoes, But No Kayaks: Thoughts on Environmental Studies Ph.D. McKay Jenkins 2011
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We did the usual things one does on such trips: we paddled around; we used seining nets to look for benthic macroinvertebrates; we tested the water for phosphates and nitrogen.
McKay Jenkins, Ph.D.: Canoes, But No Kayaks: Thoughts on Environmental Studies Ph.D. McKay Jenkins 2011
heypacksees commented on the word benthic
Beyond the littoral, below the pelagic. The sea floor.
November 21, 2011