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intertidal

intertidal adjective: pertaining to the part of a shore between the high water and the low water.

Adjective

intertidal (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to the part of a shore between the high water and the low water.

Noun

intertidal (plural intertidals)

  1. An intertidal zone or an organism that inhabits such a zone

Forms of intertidal

pluralintertidals

Origin of intertidal

From inter- + tidal.

Words formed from intertidal

Phrases with intertidal

Questions about intertidal

What does intertidal mean?
Intertidal means pertaining to the part of a shore between the high water and the low water.
What part of speech is intertidal?
Intertidal can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near intertidal in the dictionary

  1. interthought
  2. interthread
  3. interthreaded
  4. interthreading
  5. interthreads
  6. intertidal
  7. intertidal wetland
  8. intertidal wetlands
  9. intertidal zone
  10. intertidal zones
  11. intertidally

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