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English
Etymology
From or equivalent to nerite + -ic.
Adjective
neritic (not comparable)
- Describing a marine environment of shallow waters
2003, Donald R. Prothero, From Greenhouse to Icehouse: The Marine Eocene-Oligocene Transition:Accessory benthic foraminiferal events reported by Berggren and Miller (1989) to occur in the late Eocene are the migrations into the bathyal realm from the neritic realm of planulinids and siphoninids.
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French néritique.
Adjective
neritic m or n (feminine singular neritică, masculine plural neritici, feminine and neuter plural neritice)
- neritic
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