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• Aeroplankton are the atmospheric equivalent of oceanic plankton.From the entry aeroplankton
• The gempylids, or snake mackerels, are a small group of predatory oceanic or pelagic fish.2002, S. S. Deshpande, Handbook of Food Toxicology, page 696. From the entry gempylid
• Then we indicate some of the more pertinent characteristics of oceanic and continental lithospheres.2001, Neville Price, Major Impacts and Plate Tectonics: A Model for the Phanerozoic Evolution of the Earth's Lithosphere, Taylor & Francis…. From the entry lithosphere
• The air smells of strange, oceanic aldehydes.2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 180. From the entry aldehyde
• Fiords are glacially carved oceanic intrusions into land.2019, J. N. Moum, W. D. Smyth, “Upper Ocean Mixing”, in J. Kirk Cochran, Henry J. Bokuniewicz, Patricia L. Yager, editors, Encyclopedia of…. From the entry fjord
• The oceanic frigatebirds are represented in Australia by three species: the Great and Lesser Frigatebirds and endemic Christmas Island Frigatebird (pictured).2011, Penny Olsen, Leo Joseph, Stray Feathers: Reflections on the Structure, Behaviour and Evolution of Birds, page 176. From the entry frigatebird
• These three islands therefore exemplify, after a fashion, the Rein-Murray theory of oceanic banks, upbuilt by pelagic deposits, as atoll foundations.1976, William Morris Davis, The coral reef problem. From the entry upbuild
• The Maori in Aotearoa (the pair of major islands which Europeans have known as New Zealand) were part of the same oceanic culture.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, page 877. From the entry Aotearoa
• The Banda Sea is an interarc basin composed of a series of east-west-trending continental and volcanic ridges separated by anomalously deep oceanic basins.2003, Yildirim Dilek, Paul T. Robinson, Ophiolites in Earth History, Geological Society of London, →ISBN, page 487. From the entry Banda Sea
• Therefore, both a mantle plume and also the subductions of the oceanic plates may have mutually contributed to create the magmatic zone.2000, Ki-Hong Chang, Sun-Ok Park, Soobum Chang, “Upper Mesozoic unconformity-bounded units of Korean Peninsula with Koguryo Magmatic…. From the entry subduction
• She was not as demure as she was in Roanoke; she seemed at the beginning rather like she felt more comfortable in the oceanic atmosphere harpooning her opponent.2012, Hampton Roads Republican US Senate Debate Summary. From the entry cetacean
• In each case, the sense of motion is such that the eastern or oceanic side is thrust beneath the western or islandward side of the shallow seismic zone.2012, Henry R. Frankel, The Continental Drift Controversy: Evolution Into Plate Tectonics, volume IV, Cambridge University Press, page 543. From the entry islandward
• Such a floating island could carry small animals such as frogs, lizards, or rats, the resistant eggs of other animals, and specimens of plants not adapted to oceanic dispersal.2010, C. Barry Cox, Peter D. Moore, Biogeography: An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach, page 225. From the entry floating island
• Only dark birds know who let it rot over itself, mirror its oarlessness and the one thin seam that suddenly like a mouth opened to allow everything oceanic in.2002, Douglas Smith, Helsinki Drift: Travel Poems, page 10. From the entry oarlessness
• But Piazza, whose flattened affect is ideally suited to pitching an oceanic array of products, makes such come-hither antics as posing shirtless for Sports Illustrated Women seem utterly Stepfordian.2002 August, Jeff Z. Klein, “Who Cares If He's Gay? Mike Piazza's a Big Sellout”, in Details, page 52. From the entry Stepfordian

Meaning of oceanic

1. adjective Of or relating to the ocean.
2. adjective Living in, produced by, or frequenting the ocean.
3. adjective Resembling an ocean in vastness or extent.

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How do you use oceanic in a sentence?

Oceanic is used as an adjective. For example: “Aeroplankton are the atmospheric equivalent of oceanic plankton.”

What is a short sentence with oceanic?

“The air smells of strange, oceanic aldehydes.”

What does oceanic mean?

Oceanic means of or relating to the ocean.