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発音

• IPA^(key): /pəˈlæd͡ʒɪk/, /pɛˈlæd͡ʒɪk/
• 韻: -æd͡ʒɪk

形容詞

pelagic (comparative more pelagic, superlative most pelagic)

1. (biology) Living in the open sea rather than in coastal or inland waters.
   • 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 13:

     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.
   • 2020, David Farrier, “The Bottle as Hero”, in Footprints, 4th Estate, →ISBN:

     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.

派生語

名詞

pelagic (複数形 pelagics)

1. (biology) Any organism that lives in the open sea rather than in coastal or inland waters.

参考

• benthic
• oceanic
• planktonic