mesopelagic
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English
Etymology
Adjective
mesopelagic (not comparable)
- (oceanography) Describing a pelagic zone of the oceans between the photic epipelagic and the aphotic bathypelagic zones
- 2001, James Willard Nybakken, Marine Biology: An Ecological Approach, page 153:
- For those animals living in the mesopelagic zone, where some light downwells from the surface, a visual predator looking up at them could see a silhouette.
Translations
relating to the zone of the ocean between the photic epipelagic and the aphotic bathypelagic zones
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Noun
mesopelagic (plural mesopelagics)