pelagic

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin pelagicus (and possibly pelagus); from Ancient Greek πελαγικός (pelagikós), from πέλαγος (pélagos, sea).

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pelagic (comparative more pelagic, superlative most pelagic)

  1. (biology) Living in the open sea rather than in coastal or inland waters.
    • 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 13:
      Besides, seeing a shark in an aquarium tank is not the same as seeing a shark in the wild, in its natural, pelagic habitat.
  2. Of or pertaining to oceans.
    • 2020, David Farrier, “The Bottle as Hero”, in Footprints, 4th Estate, →ISBN:
      Drifting idly around a broad oceanic arc, the bottle collides softly with tens of thousands of pelagic plastics all colonized by hard-shelled organisms, including barnacles, coralline algae, foraminifera and bivalve molluscs.

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Noun

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pelagic (plural pelagics)

  1. (biology) Any organism that lives in the open sea rather than in coastal or inland waters.

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French pélagique.

Adjective

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pelagic m or n (feminine singular pelagică, masculine plural pelagici, feminine and neuter plural pelagice)

  1. pelagic

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