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Definition of Bathypelagic
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the parts of the oceans at depths between 1000 and 4000 meters deep. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bathypelagic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bathypelagic
Literary usage of Bathypelagic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Commissioner for by United States Fish Commission (1893)
"I call bathypelagic all those organisms which occur not merely at the surface,
... Among the bathypelagic animals there are farther to be distinguished: (a) ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1908)
"This distribution of the youngest known stages leads Dr. Schmidt to surmise that
the eggs of the common eel are bathypelagic, and that the larva? as they ..."
3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1898)
"... because they seek their food among this bathypelagic fauna, and we often find
in their stomachs entire specimens of the animals mentioned. ..."
4. The Scientific Monthly by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1921)
"... that there exists in those vast spaces a whole bathypelagic world undergoing
vertical oscillation by which some individuals are dragged up from the ..."
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