circumlittoral

circumlittoral: circumlittoral /sûr-kəm-litˈə-rəl/

adjective

Adjacent to or bordering the shoreline

ORIGIN: L circum around, and littus, for lītus, -oris shore

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circumˈlittoral, a.
[f. circum- 2 + L. littus, littor- shore: cf. littoral.]

Lying round or bordering the shore. spec. applied by some to that zone or region of the sea-bottom lying immediately outside of and below the Littoral. See zone.

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