Pelagic

Quick meaning: Pelagic is an adjective meaning (biology) Living in the open sea rather than in coastal or inland waters.

Meaning

(biology) Living in the open sea rather than in coastal or inland waters.

More Meanings

1. Of or pertaining to oceans.
2. (biology) Any organism that lives in the open sea rather than in coastal or inland waters.

Example Sentences

Besides, seeing a shark in an aquarium tank is not the same as seeing a shark in the wild, in its natural, pelagic habitat.

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.

The main fish species in freshwater ponds in China are silver carp, bighead carp, grass carp, common carp, crucian carp, black carp (Mylopharyngodon piceus), mud carp (Cirrhinus molitorella), etc. According to their live habitat, they can be divided relatively into pelagic and benthic fish.

Word Forms

• pelagics

Synonyms for pelagic

Depending on context, synonyms include oceanic.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include oceanic, ocean, deep-sea, deep-water, ocean-going, free-swimming.

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