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inframedian

inframedian adjective: of or relating to the interval or zone along the sea bottom, at the depth of between fifty and one hundred fathoms.

Adjective

inframedian (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to the interval or zone along the sea bottom, at the depth of between fifty and one hundred fathoms.
    • The inframedian zone ranges from fifty fathoms to a hundred.1853, The Annual of Scientific Discovery, page 342
    • Thus, in the British seas naturalists speak of a littoral, laminarian, coralline, and coral zone; an in the ocean genrally, of a littoral, circum-littoral, median, inframedian, and abyssal or deep-sea zone.1863, David Page ·, Introductory Text-book of Physical Geography, page 168
  2. Below the middle.
    • Thus the upper, inframedian and carinal laterals have three layers, but the rostrum and rostro-laterals, which appear at a later stage, have only two.1930, C. C. A. Monro, Polychaete Worms, page 231
    • Gl. oculatum is easily distinguished from these by the fact that it bears no spines and by the median rather than inframedian girdle.1950, Theodor Karl Just, Lloydia - Volume 13, page 295

Examples of inframedian in a sentence

  • From the ventral apices of the two lateral cartilages, the two inframedian radular tensors run upwards and slightly forwards.1964, Emile S. Demian, The Anatomy of the Alimentary System of Marisa Cornuarietis (L.), page 39:
  • Oogonium with projections or lateral pleating of the wall (flange ) ; circumcision supramedian , median , submedian or distinctly inframedian, sometimes resembling a hinged pore.2006, P. M. McCarthy, Lyn Jessup, Algae of Australia - Volume 3, page 51:

Origin of inframedian

From infra- + median.

Questions about inframedian

What does inframedian mean?
Inframedian means of or relating to the interval or zone along the sea bottom, at the depth of between fifty and one hundred fathoms.
How do you use inframedian in a sentence?
From the ventral apices of the two lateral cartilages, the two inframedian radular tensors run upwards and slightly forwards.
What part of speech is inframedian?
Inframedian is an adjective.

Words near inframedian in the dictionary

  1. inframammary
  2. inframandibular
  3. inframarginal
  4. inframaxillary
  5. inframe
  6. inframedian
  7. inframesenteric
  8. inframesocolic
  9. inframitral
  10. inframontane
  11. inframundane

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