Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or belonging to the open sea; more recently, living on or near the surface of the ocean, at some distance from land; pelagic.
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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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