Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to seas or oceans, especially smaller or inland seas.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In zoology, living in the high seas; pelagic; marine.
- Of, pertaining to, or restricted to the smaller bodies of water called seas, as distinguished from
oceanic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Geol.) Of or pertaining to the sea; -- sometimes applied to rocks formed from sediments deposited upon the sea bottom.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, or relating to
seas andoceans
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to the seas, especially smaller or inland seas
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Like all Mendelkinder, I was genetically programmed to be a first colonist -- in my case on the first newly discovered pan-thalassic world that needed colonization and development.
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He shook his head; and I, recalling the crimson chamber in his castle, speculated upon his living arrangements in thalassic caverns I could scarcely conceive.
The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987
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The thalassic peoples here in the Equatorial Zone are fairly good empirical, teaspoon-measure, chemists.
Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952
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They make nitroglycerine, like all the thalassic peoples; they also make TNT and catastrophite, and propellants.
Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952
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The North Zirks have ridden all the way around it, on hipposaur-back, in the high latitudes, and the thalassic peoples at the Equator have sailed all the five equatorial seas and portaged all the isthmuses between.
Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952
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The North Zirks have ridden all the way around it, on hipposaur-back, in the high latitudes, and the thalassic peoples at the Equator have sailed all the five equatorial seas and portaged all the isthmuses between.
Uller Uprising H. Beam Piper 1934
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They make nitroglycerine, like all the thalassic peoples; they also make TNT and propellants.
Ullr Uprising H. Beam Piper 1934
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The thalassic peoples here in the Equatorial Zone are fairly good empirical, teaspoon-measure, chemists.
Uller Uprising H. Beam Piper 1934
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They make nitroglycerine, like all the thalassic peoples; they also make TNT and catastrophite, and propellants.
Uller Uprising H. Beam Piper 1934
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The larger articulations, by their close grouping, break up the sea into the minor thalassic basins which encourage navigation, and thus insure the exchange of their respective cultural achievements.
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
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