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Definition of Neritic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the region of the sea over the continental shelf which is less than 200 meters deep. "Neritic oil"

2. Adjective. Relating to the region of shallow water adjoining the seacoast. "Neritic fauna"

Definition of Neritic

1. Adjective. Describing a marine environment of shallow waters ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Neritic

1. pertaining to shallow water [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Neritic

nerf bar nerf bars nerf net nerf nets nerfed nerfing nerfling nerflings nerfs nerine

nerines nerita nerite nerites neritic (current term) neritic zone neritid neritid gastropod neritina nerk

nerka nerkas nerks nero nerol neroli neroli oil nerolidol nerolis

Literary usage of Neritic

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

1. Proceedings of the Liverpool Geological Society by Liverpool Geological Society (1900)
"Some of the neritic sands may be compared with the Coralline Crag (notably those found SE of the ... Although these neritic sands, like the Coralline Crag, ..."

2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"Difficulties attend its specific determination so that Fowler is of the opinion that it is possibly only an Atlantic neritic form not occurring in, ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Special conditions of wind and current may of course carry into the neritic zone forms which are characteristic of the open sea, and vice versa. ..."

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