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NERITIC
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to the region of shallow water adjoining the seacoast
Example:
neritic fauna
Classified under:
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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