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Pelagic

//pəˈlæd͡ʒɪk// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective

1
Living in the open sea rather than in coastal or inland waters.
"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.
"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."

Adjective

1
relating to or occurring or living in or frequenting the open ocean wordnet

Noun

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

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Latin pelagicus (and possibly pelagus); from Ancient Greek πελαγικός (pelagikós), from πέλαγος (pélagos, “sea”). By surface analysis, -pelag + -ic.

Etymology 2

From Latin pelagicus (and possibly pelagus); from Ancient Greek πελαγικός (pelagikós), from πέλαγος (pélagos, “sea”). By surface analysis, -pelag + -ic.

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