coastal

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See also: Coastal

English

Etymology

From coast + -al.

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Adjective

coastal (comparative more coastal, superlative most coastal)

  1. (geography) Relating to the coast; on or near the coast; longshore.
    coastal town
    coastal breeze
    coastal elites
    • 2015 July 31, “Morphologically Cryptic Amphipod Species Are “Ecological Clones” at Regional but Not at Local Scale: A Case Study of Four Niphargus Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
      These included other Niphargus species from deep cave lakes and coastal anchihaline caves [23 ] and Gammarus and Echinogammarus amphipods that live only in permanently watered streams [21 ,24 ].

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