Definition of Sublittoral

1. 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.

Partainyms: Continental Shelf

Definition of Sublittoral

1. a. Under the shore.

Definition of Sublittoral

1. Adjective. Under the shore. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sublittoral

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sublittoral

sublingual
sublingual gland
sublingual salivary gland
sublingual vein
sublingually
sublist
sublists
subliteracies
subliteracy
subliterary
subliterate
subliterately
subliterates
subliterature
subliteratures
sublittoral (current term)
sublittorals
sublobular
sublogarithmic
sublogic
sublogics
sublot
sublots
sublumbar
sublumic
subluminal
subluminous
sublunar
sublunary
sublunary sphere

Literary usage of Sublittoral

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

1. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1843)
"I should think that most of the sublittoral deposits of the present day will suffer, what I conclude the sublittoral formations of the secondary aeras have ..."

2. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1843)
"I should think that most of the sublittoral deposits of the present day will suffer, what I conclude the sublittoral formations of the secondary aeras have ..."

3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1843)
"I should think that most of the sublittoral deposits of the present day will suffer, what I conclude the sublittoral formations of the secondary aeras have ..."

4. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1843)
"I should think that most of the sublittoral deposits of the present day will suffer, what I conclude the sublittoral formations of the secondary aeras have ..."

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