Definition of Litoral

1. Noun. The region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean.

Exact synonyms: Littoral, Littoral Zone, Sands
Generic synonyms: Coast, Sea-coast, Seacoast, Seashore

Definition of Litoral

1. Adjective. (alternative spelling of littoral) ¹

2. Noun. (alternative spelling of littoral) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Litoral

1. pertaining to a coastal region [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Litoral

litigious
litigious paranoia
litigiously
litigiousness
litigiousnesses
liting
litmus
litmus paper
litmus test
litmus tests
litmuses
litogen
litogens
litoptern
litopterns
litoral (current term)
litorin
litote
litotes
litotic
litotical
litotically
litra
litracen
litrameter
litrameters
litras
litre
litrebike
litrebikes

Literary usage of Litoral

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

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"The principal characters of the litoral are: 1, presence of light; 2, presence of the bottom ... The litoral follows generally the coasts of the continents, ..."

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Up to 1879 the province belonged to Bolivia, and was known as the department of Atacama, or the litoral. It fell into the possession of Chile in the war of ..."

3. Races and Peoples: Lectures on the Science of Ethnography by Daniel Garrison Brinton (1890)
"INSULAR AND litoral PEOPLES. CONTENTS.—Variability of islanders and coast peoples. Physical geography of Oceanica. Ethnographic divisions. ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Up to 1879 the province belonged to Bolivia, and was known as the department of Atacama, or the litoral. It fell into the possession of Chile in the war of ..."

5. Rad (1870)
"... la suindicata V. litoral is, e non mai in altra località". Nije sumnje, da je ovo A. lupinus, ..."

6. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series by California academy of sciences (1900)
"P. perforata occurs throughout the litoral zone and in the upper part of the sublitoral zone. There is some difference in form between the plants of the ..."

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