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postpelagic

postpelagic adjective: describing an organism that has spent its juvenility living in the open sea but has since moved to coastal or inland waters.

Adjective

postpelagic (not comparable)

  1. Describing an organism that has spent its juvenility living in the open sea but has since moved to coastal or inland waters.

Questions about postpelagic

What does postpelagic mean?
Postpelagic means describing an organism that has spent its juvenility living in the open sea but has since moved to coastal or inland waters.
What part of speech is postpelagic?
Postpelagic is an adjective.

Words near postpelagic in the dictionary

  1. postpausal
  2. postpausally
  3. postpay
  4. postpedicel
  5. postpedicels
  6. postpelagic
  7. postpenal
  8. postpend
  9. postpended
  10. postpending
  11. postpends

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