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comparative more pelagic, superlative most pelagic
(biology) Living in the open sea rather than in coastal or inland waters. quotations
Besides, seeing a shark in an aquarium tank is not the same as seeing a shark in the wild, in its natural, pelagic habitat.
1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, page 13
Of or pertaining to oceans. quotations examples
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.
2020, David Farrier, “The Bottle as Hero”, in Footprints, 4th Estate
plural pelagics
(biology) Any organism that lives in the open sea rather than in coastal or inland waters.