2012年4月28日 星期六

2012_04_28 Littoral Adj. 海洋的岸边 Pertaining to the shore of a lake, sea, or ocean

Word of the Day for Saturday, April 28, 2012
littoral \LIT-er-uhl\, adjective:
1. Pertaining to the shore of a lake, sea, or ocean.
2. (On ocean shores) of or pertaining to the biogeographic region between the sublittoral zone and the high-water line and sometimes including the supralittoral zone above the high-water line.
3. Of or pertaining to the region of freshwater lake beds from the sublittoral zone up to and including damp areas on shore.
noun:
1. A littoral region.
The extensive artificialization of lake shorelines reduces the native littoral vegetation in quantity and quality.
 -- Alex Córdoba-Aguilar, Dragonflies and Damselflies
There was an exuberant fierceness in the littoral here, a vital competition for existence.
 -- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Littoral stems from the Latin word lītus which meant "shore." It was replaced by the Old English word shore but is still used by scientists

1。有关的一个湖,海,海洋岸边
2。 维景湾畔有关之间sublittoral区域和高水位线有时还包括水位线以上潮上地理区域
3。有关地区淡水湖泊病床sublittoral最多包括潮湿的地方上了岸

名词:
1。沿岸地区

广泛海岸线人工化减少本土沿岸植被的数量和质量
- 亚历克斯科尔多瓦咀,蜻蜓和豆娘

沿岸旺盛凶猛这里,一个重要存在竞争
- 约翰斯坦贝克愤怒的葡萄

滨海源于这意味着拉丁词lītus取代了英文单词岸边科学家仍然使用

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