Littoral

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Littoral \Lit"to*ral\, a. [L. littoralis, litoralis, from
     littus, litus, the seashore: cf. F. littoral.]
     1. Of or pertaining to a shore, as of the sea.
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     2. (Biol.) Inhabiting the seashore, esp. the zone between


        high-water and low-water mark.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  littoral
       adj : of or relating to a coastal or shore region
       n : the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean [syn: {litoral},
            {littoral zone}, {sands}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  78 Moby Thesaurus words for "littoral":
     aquatic, balneal, bank, beach, benthic zone, berm, bordering,
     borderline, boundary, bounding, coast, coastal, coastland,
     coastline, deep-sea, determinant, determinative, determining,
     embankment, estuarine, estuarine area, extreme, foreshore,
     fringing, frontier, grallatorial, intertidal zone, ironbound coast,
     lido, limbic, liminal, limit, limiting, marginal, natant,
     natatorial, natatory, pelagic zone, plage, playa, rimming,
     riparial, riparian, riparious, riverside, riviera, rockbound coast,
     sands, sea margin, seabank, seabeach, seaboard, seacliff, seacoast,
     seashore, seaside, shingle, shore, shoreline, shoreside, shoreward,
     skirting, splash zone, strand, sublittoral, submerged coast,
     supralittoral, swimming, terminal, threshold, tidal, tidewater,
     water-dwelling, water-growing, water-living, water-loving,
     waterfront, waterside