Inframedian
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Inframedian is an adjective meaning Of or relating to the interval or zone along the sea bottom, at the depth of between fifty and one hundred fathoms.
Meaning
Of or relating to the interval or zone along the sea bottom, at the depth of between fifty and one hundred fathoms.
More Meanings
- (biology) Below the middle.
Example Sentences
The inframedian zone ranges from fifty fathoms to a hundred.
From the ventral apices of the two lateral cartilages, the two inframedian radular tensors run upwards and slightly forwards.
Gl. oculatum is easily distinguished from these by the fact that it bears no spines and by the median rather than inframedian girdle.
Thus the upper, inframedian and carinal laterals have three layers, but the rostrum and rostro-laterals, which appear at a later stage, have only two.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include profundal, bathyal, peritidal, underwater, infralittoral, infranatant.
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