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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of or relating to seas or oceans, especially smaller or inland seas.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In zoology, living in the high seas; pelagic; marine.
  2. Of, pertaining to, or restricted to the smaller bodies of water called seas, as distinguished from oceanic.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. of, or relating to seas and oceans

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Geol.) Of or pertaining to the sea; -- sometimes applied to rocks formed from sediments deposited upon the sea bottom.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. relating to the seas, especially smaller or inland seas

Etymologies

  1. From French thalassique, from Ancient Greek θάλασσα (thalassa, "sea") + -ique (Wiktionary)
  2. French thalassique, from Greek thalassa, sea. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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