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Antonyms for pelagic
pəˈlædʒ ɪkpelag·ic
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Princeton's WordNet
oceanic, pelagicadjective
relating to or occurring or living in or frequenting the open ocean
"oceanic islands like Bermuda"; "oceanic currents"; "oceanic birds"; "pelagic organisms"; "pelagic whaling"
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oceanic
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
pelagic
Synonyms:
Pertaining to open sea
Editors Contribution
demersaladjective
demersal fish are bottom living/feeders, pelagic are surface fish.
barramundi are demersal, tuna are pelagic.
Submitted by johnlbrown on October 13, 2023
How to use pelagic in a sentence?
Makos are a very hot topic and high priority species now, because the population is on the decline. There ... is a petition to see if makos should be listed as a threatened or endangered species in U.S. waters, our work is helping understand and mitigate interactions with pelagic longline fishing gear.
The mother lives in the large pelagic tub with another female specimen. If confirmed by DNA analysis, it would be the world's first documented parthenogenesis documented by Mustelus Mustelus. Ispera, the name chosen for the little one, in Sardinian means hope and a birth in the [COVID-19] era it certainly is.
Courtesy Linsey Haram/Smithsonian Institution Haram:
Quite a large percentage of the diversity that we found were coastal species and not the the native pelagic open ocean species that we were largely expecting to find.
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