pelagic

adj
/pəˈlæd͡ʒɪk/

Etymology

From Latin pelagicus (and possibly pelagus); from Ancient Greek πελαγικός (pelagikós), from πέλαγος (pélagos, “sea”). By surface analysis, -pelag + -ic.

  1. derived from πελαγικός
  2. derived from pelagicus

Definitions

  1. Living in the open sea rather than in coastal or inland waters.

    • Besides, seeing a shark in an aquarium tank is not the same as seeing a shark in the wild, in its natural, pelagic habitat.
  2. Of or pertaining to oceans.

    • Drifting idly around a broad oceanic arc, the bottle collides softly with tens of thousands of pelagic plastics all colonized by hard-shelled organisms, including barnacles, coralline algae, foraminifera and bivalve molluscs.
  3. Any organism that lives in the open sea rather than in coastal or inland waters.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pelagic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA