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littleneck |
littleneck clam |
littleness |
littler |
littlest |
littoral
| littoral zone
| littorina
| littorinidae
| littre
| littress
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littoral
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun littoral has 1 sense
- littoral(n = noun.location) litoral, littoral zone, sands - the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean; Array is a kind of coast, sea-coast, seacoast, seashore
Adjective littoral has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
littoral, a. [L. littoralis, litoralis, from littus, litus, the seashore: cf. F. littoral.].
- Of or pertaining to a shore, as of the sea. [1913 Webster]
- Inhabiting the seashore, esp. the zone between high-water and low-water mark. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
littoral, adj. & n.
--adj. of or on the shore of the sea, a lake, etc.
--n. a region lying along a shore.
--adj. of or on the shore of the sea, a lake, etc.
--n. a region lying along a shore.
Etymology
L littoralis f. litus litoris shore
THESAURUS
littoral
aquatic, balneal, bank, beach, benthic zone, berm, bordering, borderline, boundary, bounding, coast, coastal, coastland, coastline, deep-sea, determinant, determinative, determining, embankment, estuarine, estuarine area, extreme, foreshore, fringing, frontier, grallatorial, intertidal zone, ironbound coast, lido, limbic, liminal, limit, limiting, marginal, natant, natatorial, natatory, pelagic zone, plage, playa, rimming, riparial, riparian, riparious, riverside, riviera, rockbound coast, sands, sea margin, seabank, seabeach, seaboard, seacliff, seacoast, seashore, seaside, shingle, shore, shoreline, shoreside, shoreward, skirting, splash zone, strand, sublittoral, submerged coast, supralittoral, swimming, terminal, threshold, tidal, tidewater, water-dwelling, water-growing, water-living, water-loving, waterfront, watersideROGET THESAURUS
littoral
Land
N land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma, continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta, tongue of land, neck of land, isthmus, oasis, promontory, highland, coast, shore, scar, strand, beach, playa, bank, lea, seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach, ironbound coast, loom of the land, derelict, innings, alluvium, alluvion, ancon, riverbank, river bank, levee, soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot, rock, crag, acres, real estate, landsman, earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian, alluvial, terrene, landed, predial, territorial, geophilous, ripicolous, ashore, on shore, on land.
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