Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Relating to or inhabiting the ocean waters between the low tide mark and a depth of about 200 meters (656 feet).
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the water near the coast, as contrasted with the high sea.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Relating to the belt or region of shallow water adjoining the seacost.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Describing a
marine environment ofshallow waters
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to the region of shallow water adjoining the seacoast
- adjective of or relating to the region of the sea over the continental shelf which is less than 200 meters deep
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In the highest, is the so-called neritic zone, -- the oceanic surface, diaphanous and luminous, far from any coast.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897
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Comparative climatology of selected environmental processes in relation to eastern boundary current pelagic fish reproduction. in Proceedings of the expert consultation to examine changes in abundance and species composition of neritic fish resources.pp. 731-778.ed. by G.D. Sharp and J. Csirke.
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Aquatic habitats include freshwater (lakes, rivers, streams, muskets, and freshwater marshes) and marine (intertidal and neritic zones, estuaries, fjords and upper inlets).
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The shelf has neritic phytoplankton and zooplankton communities, somewhat separated from the offshore areas while receiving variable influence from the offshore environment.
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Comparative climatology of selected environmental processes in relation to eastern boundary current pelagic fish reproduction. in Proceedings of the expert consultation to examine changes in abundance and species composition of neritic fish resources.pp. 731-778.ed. by G.D. Sharp and J. Csirke.
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Variability of pelagic fish stocks off California in Proceedings of the expert consultation to examine changes in abundance and species composition of neritic fish resources.
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The biologist devoted most of his time, meanwhile, to the whaling industry, there being no less than seven stations on the island; he also made collections of the neritic fauna, and, accompanied by the photographer, studied the bird life and the habits of the sea – elephants along the east coast.
South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917 2006
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Toulon, and the second was a certain Don Mario, a fat and learned newt from Cuba carrying out scientific work in the field of plankton and neritic pelagial.
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Before and after the late Paleocene thermal maximum, upwelling and biological productivity were less intense, and seafloor dysoxia was restricted to neritic parts of the basin.
Bürger and Cubasch: Are multiproxy climate reconstructions robust? « Climate Audit 2005
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The corpses of the neritic animals and of those that swim between the two waters are the direct or indirect sustenance of the abyssal fauna.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897
heypacksees commented on the word neritic
Part of the littoral, beyond low tide but before the pelagic & benthic. Shallow waters.
November 21, 2011
qms commented on the word neritic
Emissions make oceans acidic
And sewage the seashore mephitic.
Less sensibly tragic
In regions pelagic
But woeful in waters neritic.
January 20, 2016