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/pəˈlæd͡ʒɪk/ · adjective
(biology) Living in the open sea rather than in coastal or inland waters..
Besides, seeing a shark in an aquarium tank is not the same as seeing a shark in the wild, in its natural, pelagic habitat.
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.
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.
Use pelagic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pelagic means (biology) Living in the open sea rather than in coastal or inland waters..
Common synonyms include oceanic.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Besides, seeing a shark in an aquarium tank is not the same as seeing a shark in the wild, in its natural, pelagic habitat.
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