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oceanic crust

oceanic crust noun: the thin, dense outermost layer of Earth's lithosphere beneath the oceans.

Noun

oceanic crust (countable and uncountable, plural oceanic crusts)

  1. The thin, dense outermost layer of Earth's lithosphere beneath the oceans.

oceanic crust meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

oceanic crust in Tamil

மாகடல் புறப்பகுதி, மாகடல் புறவெளி

oceanic crust in Malayalam

സമുദ്രീയ ഭൂവല്കം

Forms of oceanic crust

pluraloceanic crusts

Questions about oceanic crust

What does oceanic crust mean?
Oceanic crust means the thin, dense outermost layer of Earth's lithosphere beneath the oceans.
What is oceanic crust in Tamil?
Oceanic crust in Tamil is மாகடல் புறப்பகுதி, மாகடல் புறவெளி. See Oceanic crust meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is oceanic crust?
Oceanic crust is a noun.
What is the plural of oceanic crust?
The plural of oceanic crust is oceanic crusts.

Words near oceanic crust in the dictionary

  1. Oceanianist
  2. Oceanianists
  3. Oceanians
  4. oceanic
  5. oceanic abyss
  6. oceanic crust
  7. oceanic crusts
  8. oceanic dolphin
  9. oceanic dolphins
  10. oceanic trench
  11. oceanic trenches

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oceanic crust (page history and authors); oceanic crust (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); oceanic crust (Malayalam Wiktionary) (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.

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