Meaning of littoral | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of or relating to the shore, especially the seashore
2. A shore.
3. A shore
4. The zone of a coast between high tide and low tide levels.
5. Of or on a shore, especially a seashore: a littoral property; the littoral biogeographic zone.
6. The zone of a coast between high tide and low tide levels
7. Of or on a shore, especially a seashore: the littoral zone.
8. The zone between the limits of high and low tides.
9. A coastal region; a shore.
10. The region or zone between the limits of high and low tides.
11. (Physical Geography) of or relating to the shore of a sea, lake, or ocean
12. (Biology) biology inhabiting the shore of a sea or lake or the shallow waters near the shore: littoral fauna.
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13. (Physical Geography) a coastal or shore region
14. of or pertaining to the shore of a lake, sea, or ocean.
15. (on ocean shores) of or pertaining to the biogeographic region between the sublittoral zone and the high-water line.

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Examples

“[…] these Chams belonged to the Malay-Polynesian group and their distribution along the littoral suggests that they were invaders from the sea […]”

“The railway running along the littoral from Brighton westward to Portsmouth forms an important section of the L.B.S.C.R. (Central) secion of the Southern Railway.”

“Just beyond the locomotive depot is the junction of the Anecho line, which curves sharply eastwards. It runs for the whole way along the flat, sandy littoral among coconut plantations, usually a mile or so inland.”

“The night was considerably clearer than anybody on board her desired when the schooner Ventura headed for the land. It rose in places, black and sharp against the velvety indigo, over her dipping bow, though most of the low littoral was wrapped in obscurity.”

“Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.”

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