NERITIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neritic mean? 

• NERITIC (adjective)
  The adjective NERITIC has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to the region of the sea over the continental shelf which is less than 200 meters deep

2. relating to the region of shallow water adjoining the seacoast

  Familiarity information: NERITIC used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NERITIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the region of the sea over the continental shelf which is less than 200 meters deep

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

neritic oil

Pertainym:

neritic zone (the ocean waters from the low tide mark to a depth of about 100 fathoms)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Relating to the region of shallow water adjoining the seacoast

Context example:

neritic fauna

Similar:

shallow (lacking physical depth; having little spatial extension downward or inward from an outer surface or backward or outward from a center)

 Context examples 

Primary division of the sea that includes the whole mass of water subdivided into neritic and oceanic zones.

(Pelagic, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

Deep-sea sediment in which more than 25% of the fraction coarser than 5 microns is of terrigenous, volcanogenic, and/or neritic origin.

(Hemipelagic sediments, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)