Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or situated near the seashore.
- adjective Of or relating to an organism living near or just below the low tide level of a shore.
- adjective Lying between the low tide line and the edge of the continental shelf or ranging in depth to about 100 fathoms or 200 meters (660 feet).
- adjective Of or relating to the deeper part of a lake below the area in which rooted plants grow.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the sea-bottom near the coast.
- In zoology, of littoral habits to some extent; living near the seashore; especially, living at a somewhat lower horizon under water than that of the littoral zone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Under the shore.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Under the
shore .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to the region of the continental shelf (between the seashore and the edge of the continental shelf) or the marine organisms situated there
Etymologies
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Examples
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Because of the highly transparent nature of the waters the sublittoral algae Posidionia oceanica is found over quite a large area.
Scandola Nature Reserve & Capes Girolata and Porto, France 2008
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The marine environment contains considerable numbers of spiny lobster and a wide range of littoral and sublittoral invertebrates and fish.
Scandola Nature Reserve & Capes Girolata and Porto, France 2008
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SNH has recently run a 6-year research program on intertidal, sublittoral and benthic sites with surveys in 1997 and 2000.
St Kilda (Hirta) National Nature Reserve, United Kingdom 2008
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Arctic Ocean supports beds of sea-tangle (Fucus distichus) and in the littoral and sublittoral regions (down to about 40 m in clear water) are kelp forests of
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