Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Adjacent to the shore-line; extending along the shore: specifically applied to one of the zones into which some naturalists have divided the sea-bottom according to the depth of water covering each. In regard to depth the circumlittoral is the fourth zone, reckoning from the deepest or abyssal.
Wiktionary
- adj. Around, or bordering the shore
- adj. Describing the part of the sea bottom immediately beyond the littoral
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Adjointing the shore.
Etymologies
- circum- + littoral (Wiktionary)
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jmjarmstrong JM is hanging around the beach so he can be literally circumlittoral. Feb 14, 2011