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Thalassic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of or relating to seas or oceans, especially smaller or inland seas.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. of, or relating to seas and oceans

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Of or pertaining to the sea; -- sometimes applied to rocks formed from sediments deposited upon the sea bottom.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

In zoology, living in the high seas; pelagic; marine.

Of, pertaining to, or restricted to the smaller bodies of water called seas, as distinguished from oceanic.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. relating to the seas, especially smaller or inland seas

Word Usage

"Like all Mendelkinder, I was genetically programmed to be a first colonist -- in my case on the first newly discovered pan-thalassic world that needed colonization and development."

Cross Reference

thalassic rocks

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detrital seamark wash-hand seagirt interoceanic