pelagic
adj/pəˈlæd͡ʒɪk/
Etymology
Definitions
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.
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.
Any organism that lives in the open sea rather than in coastal or inland waters.
The neighborhood
- neighbormarine
- neighborphotic
- neighboraphotic
- neighborneritic
- neighboroceanic
- neighborplanktonic
- neighborepipelagic
- neighbormesopelagic
- neighborbathypelagic
- neighborabyssopelagic
- neighborhadopelagic
- neighborbenthic
Derived
abyssalpelagic, abyssopelagic, allopelagic, archipelagic, bathypelagic, benthopelagic, biopelagic, chimopelagic, cryopelagic, epipelagic, eupelagic, hadalpelagic, hadopelagic, hemipelagic, holopelagic, mesopelagic, micropelagic, nonpelagic, nyctipelagic, pelagically, pelagic trawl, pelagic zone, semipelagic
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