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Definition of Marine creature
1. Noun. Any of numerous animals inhabiting the sea including e.g. fishes and molluscs and many mammals.
Generic synonyms: Animal, Animate Being, Beast, Brute, Creature, Fauna
Specialized synonyms: By-catch, Bycatch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marine Creature
Literary usage of Marine creature
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Digest of the Public General Statutes: From Magna Carta, A.D. 1224-5, to 1 by Robert Philip Tyrwhitt, Thomas William Tyndale (1822)
"... the distance therefrom, and the soundings, and also the time when and latitude
where any whale or other marine creature was taken by such ship, ..."
2. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1917)
"Johann Schmidt relates that he saw a marine creature which resembled greatly a
human being with flowing hair and the face of a maiden (Fig. ..."
3. Researches in Theoretical Geology by Henry Thomas De La Beche (1837)
"When a marine creature dies, therefore, it would probably remain suspended in
the water at levels not very different from ..."
4. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1891)
"... and would not therefore have a word to denote the creature.1 The word, I
suppose, means some big marine creature, and the saurians are such, ..."
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