mesopelagic
nounEtymology From meso- + pelagic.
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A mesopelagic fish
mesopelagic
adjEtymology From meso- + pelagic.
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Geography, Natural sciences, Oceanography Describing the pelagic zone of the ocean between the photic epipelagic and the aphotic bathypelagic zones, characterized by very minimal light.
- For those animals living in the mesopelagic zone, where some light downwells from the surface, a visual predator looking up at them could see a silhouette.2001, James Willard Nybakken, Marine Biology: An Ecological Approach, page 153:
- Derived terms
- mesopelagic zone