Word.ws English Dictionary

mesopelagic zone

mesopelagic zone noun: the part of the ocean where there is very minimal light, located below the photic epipelagic zone but above the aphotic bathypelagic zone.

Noun

mesopelagic zone

  1. The part of the ocean where there is very minimal light, located below the photic epipelagic zone but above the aphotic bathypelagic zone.
    Synonyms:
    twilight zone

Synonyms of mesopelagic zone

Questions about mesopelagic zone

What does mesopelagic zone mean?
Mesopelagic zone means the part of the ocean where there is very minimal light, located below the photic epipelagic zone but above the aphotic bathypelagic zone.
What part of speech is mesopelagic zone?
Mesopelagic zone is a noun.

Words near mesopelagic zone in the dictionary

  1. mesopauses
  2. mesopectal
  3. mesopectus
  4. mesopelagial
  5. mesopelagic
  6. mesopelagic zone
  7. mesopelagically
  8. mesopelagics
  9. mesoperidial
  10. mesoperidium
  11. mesoperthite

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mesopelagic zone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “mesopelagic zone.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mesopelagic_zone. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.