different between neritic vs pelagic

English

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Adjective

neritic (not comparable)

1. Describing a marine environment of shallow waters

Translations

Anagrams

• citiner, citrine, crinite, inciter, retinic, tricine

Romanian

Etymology

From French néritique

Adjective

neritic m or n (feminine singular neritic?, masculine plural neritici, feminine and neuter plural neritice)

1. neritic

Declension

English

Etymology

From Latin pelagicus (and possibly pelagus); from Ancient Greek ????????? (pelagikós), from ??????? (pélagos, “sea”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??læd??k/, /p??læd??k/
• Rhymes: -æd??k

Adjective

pelagic (comparative more pelagic, superlative most pelagic)

1. (biology) Living in the open sea rather than in coastal or inland waters.
2. Of or pertaining to oceans.

Derived terms

• pelagic trawl
• pelagic zone
• abyssopelagic
• allopelagic
• archipelagic
• bathypelagic
• chimopelagic
• epipelagic
• eupelagic
• hadopelagic
• hemipelagic
• mesopelagic
• micropelagic
• semipelagic

Translations

Noun

pelagic (plural pelagics)

1. (biology) Any organism that lives in the open sea rather than in coastal or inland waters.

See also

• benthic
• oceanic
• planktonic

Romanian

Etymology

From French pélagique.

Adjective

pelagic m or n (feminine singular pelagic?, masculine plural pelagici, feminine and neuter plural pelagice)

1. pelagic

Declension