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NERITIC

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to the region of shallow water adjoining the seacoast

Example:

neritic fauna

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

shallow (lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to the region of the sea over the continental shelf which is less than 200 meters deep

Example:

neritic oil

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

neritic zone (the ocean waters from the low tide mark to a depth of about 100 fathoms)

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