neritic

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The sardines that swim in shoals are able to pass unnoticed, thanks to their backs blue as the water, thus escaping the fish and the birds which are hunting them Living in the abysses where the light never penetrates, the pelagic animals are not obliged to be transparent or blue like the neritic beings on the surface.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or inhabiting the ocean waters between the low tide mark and a depth of about a hundred fathoms (200 meters): neritic plankton.

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  • This transport was the major cause of the predominance of neritic larvae in the composition of the larval fish community of the area. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • The sardines that swim in shoals are able to pass unnoticed, thanks to their backs blue as the water, thus escaping the fish and the birds which are hunting them Living in the abysses where the light never penetrates, the pelagic animals are not obliged to be transparent or blue like the neritic beings on the surface. —  Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel
  • In the highest, is the so-called neritic zone, -- the oceanic surface, diaphanous and luminous, far from any coast. —  Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel
  • The corpses of the neritic animals and of those that swim between the two waters are the direct or indirect sustenance of the abyssal fauna. —  Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel
  • The _plancton_ is the life that floats in loose clusters or forming cloud-like groups across the neritic surface, even descending to the abyssal depths. —  Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel
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  1. German neritisch, perhaps ultimately from Nereus, Nereus.

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  1. Greek νηρός, ναρός, flowing (see Nereid), + -it-ic.
 

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/nəˈrɪtɪk/
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