pelagic

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any organism that lives in the open sea rather than in coastal or inland waters.
形容词 adj.
  1. 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.
  2. Of or pertaining to oceans.
    — 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.

词形变化

more pelagic comparative most pelagic superlative pelagics plural

词汇关系

上位词
marine
下位词
photic aphotic neritic oceanic planktonic epipelagic mesopelagic bathypelagic abyssopelagic hadopelagic benthic
衍生词
abyssalpelagic abyssopelagic allopelagic archipelagic bathypelagic benthopelagic biopelagic chimopelagic cryopelagic epipelagic eupelagic hadalpelagic hadopelagic hemipelagic holopelagic mesopelagic micropelagic nonpelagic nyctipelagic pelagically pelagic trawl pelagic zone semipelagic

词源

词源 1
From Latin pelagicus (and possibly pelagus); from Ancient Greek πελαγικός (pelagikós), from πέλαγος (pélagos, “sea”). By surface analysis, -pelag + -ic.
词源 2
From Latin pelagicus (and possibly pelagus); from Ancient Greek πελαγικός (pelagikós), from πέλαγος (pélagos, “sea”). By surface analysis, -pelag + -ic.
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