Definition of Laminarian

1. a. Pertaining to seaweeds of the genus Laminaria, or to that zone of the sea (from two to ten fathoms in depth) where the seaweeds of this genus grow.

Definition of Laminarian

1. Adjective. Relating to seaweeds of the genus ''Laminaria'', or to the depth zone of the sea in which they grow. ¹

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Definition of Laminarian

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Laminarian

laminae medullares thalami
laminagram
laminagraph
laminagraphy
laminak
laminaks
laminal
laminals
laminar
laminar air flow unit
laminar cortical necrosis
laminar cortical sclerosis
laminar flow
laminar flow clean room
laminaria
laminarian (current term)
laminarians
laminarias
laminaribiose
laminaribiose phosphorylase
laminarin
laminarins
laminarite
laminarites
laminarization
laminarize
laminarly
laminary
laminas
laminate

Literary usage of Laminarian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of the Mollusca: Being a Treatise on Recent and Fossil Shells by Samuel Peckworth Woodward, Ralph Tate (1880)
"(laminarian zone) Ki 6. Idalia aspersa, A. and H. Northumberland 331 ... (laminarian zone) 1M 14. Glaucus Atlanticus, Bl. Gulf-weed banks ill 15. ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1895)
"I, on the other hand, for the reasons given fully above, consider that the laminarian zone close to low-water mark is at present the richest in life, ..."

3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1851)
"Of these seventeen univalves and eleven bivalves inhabit the region between low water mark and 15 fathoms, ie, the laminarian zono ; eight univalves and ..."

4. Edinburgh and Its Neighbourhood, Geological and Historical: With The Geology by Hugh Miller (1864)
"What is now the Littoral zone of the neighbouring shore must have been its laminarian zone when the waves broke against the grassy escarpment of Leith and ..."

5. Arenicola: The Lug-worm by James Hartley Ashworth (1904)
"The laminarian differs from the littoral form also in the sub-division of ... The laminarian variety is abundant on certain parts of the Lancashire coast, ..."

6. Report on the Lancashire Sea-Fisheries at the University of Liverpool, and by University of Liverpool, Lancashire Sea-Fisheries Laboratory, University of Liverpool Lancashire Sea-Fisheries Laboratory (1904)
"The laminarian differs from the littoral form also in. the sub-division of the ... The laminarian variety is abundant on certain parts of the Lancashire ..."

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