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tychopelagic

tychopelagic adjective: a reference to organisms that are normally benthic, but, carried up into the water column, became pelagic by chance factors.

Adjective

tychopelagic (not comparable)

  1. A reference to organisms that are normally benthic, but, carried up into the water column, became pelagic by chance factors.

Origin of tychopelagic

From τύχη (túkhē, “chance”) + pelagic.

Questions about tychopelagic

What does tychopelagic mean?
Tychopelagic means a reference to organisms that are normally benthic, but, carried up into the water column, became pelagic by chance factors.
What part of speech is tychopelagic?
Tychopelagic is an adjective.

Words near tychopelagic in the dictionary

  1. Tychonoff cubes
  2. Tychonoff space
  3. Tychonoff spaces
  4. tychoparthenogenesis
  5. tychoparthenogenetic
  6. tychopelagic
  7. tychoplankton
  8. tychoplanktonic
  9. tychoplanktons
  10. tychopotamic
  11. tycoon

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