Neritic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Neritic is an adjective meaning Of or relating to a marine environment of shallow waters.
Meaning
Of or relating to a marine environment of shallow waters.
Example Sentences
Accessory benthic foraminiferal events reported by Berggren and Miller (1989) to occur in the late Eocene are the migrations into the bathyal realm from the neritic realm of planulinids and siphoninids.
Synonyms for neritic
Depending on context, synonyms include sublittoral.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mesophotic, demersal, short-fetched, sublittoral, polyhaline, mesohaline.
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