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Definition of Pelagic
1. Adjective. Relating to or occurring or living in or frequenting the open ocean. "Pelagic whaling"
Definition of Pelagic
1. a. Of or pertaining to the ocean; -- applied especially to animals that live at the surface of the ocean, away from the coast.
Definition of Pelagic
1. Adjective. (biology) Living in the open sea rather than in coastal or inland waters. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pelagic
1. an inhabitant of the ocean [n -S]
Medical Definition of Pelagic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pelagic
Literary usage of Pelagic
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 (1899)
"its cause convincingly set forth, which is primarily, if not exclusively, pelagic
sealing. The history and effects of pelagic sealing are presented in ..."
2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1896)
"The Effects of pelagic Spawning Habit on the Life Histories of Fishes. By AT
MASTERMAN. The present position of work on Teleostean development—The ..."
3. Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of Alaska by David Starr Jordan, Henry Wood Elliott, Washburn Maynard, Sheldon Jackson, William Gouverneur Morris, Ivan Petroff, Charles Haskins Townsend, Frederick William True, John J. Brice, Leonhard Stejneger (1898)
"SIR: I have the honor to inclose herewith our official statement of the American
pelagic fur-seal catch of 1894, taken from the record of the custom-houses ..."
4. Notes by a Naturalist: An Account of Observations Made During the Voyage of by Henry Nottidge Moseley (1892)
"Protective Colouring of pelagic Animals. Variety of pelagic Animals. ...
These forms of life are termed " pelagic," to distinguish them from the Marine ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"267 (1902). over, these three faunas arc for the most part perfectly wdl defined;
the pelagic being very sharply sundered fran the abyssal, although there ..."
6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1894)
"On the Vertical Distribution of pelagic Crustacea in Green Lake, Wisconsin. ...
Because of its great depth it has not only the litoral and pelagic ..."
7. A Contribution to American Thalassography: Three Cruises of the United by Alexander Agassiz, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (1888)
"THE pelagic FAUNA AND FLORA. THE pelagic fauna is made up of very distinct factors.
It contains many animals which pass their whole life as wanderers on or ..."
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