littoral
IPA: ɫˈɪtɝʌɫ
noun
- A shore.
- The zone of a coast between high tide and low tide levels.
adjective
- Of or relating to the shore, especially the seashore.
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Examples of "littoral" in Sentences
- The littoral zone contains the only strata.
- Littoral is the smallest of the twelve departments.
- The littoral combat ship can operate close to shore.
- The action of waves can dislodge residents in the littoral zone.
- The park is part of the Georgian Bay Littoral Biosphere Reserve.
- He said he still viewed littoral combat ships as a good investment.
- The Littoral Ecosystem in the park is small areas surrounding the islands.
- It has with low hills in the southeast and littoral plains in the northwest.
- Littoral rights are usually concerned with the use and enjoyment of the shore.
- Settlements are confined almost entirely to the littoral and alluvial districts.
- Technically, this is called the littoral area, and it is divisible into zones, each with its characteristic population.
- A coastal variant of subtropical rain forest known as littoral rain forest is capable of withstanding high levels of airborne salt.
- Perhaps someone may enlighten readers by stripping away all of the legal jargon littoral, etc. and explaining what is happening here.
- If you want the coast guard to operate in American littoral waters, you will need an imminent danger right next to your littoral waters.
- What we may term the littoral or shore zone of the sea occupies a belt of prevailingly shallow water, varying in width from a few score to a few hundred miles.
- Gates also said the U.S. would deploy to Singapore a newly developed warship known as the littoral combat ship, which is a smaller combat vessel designed to operate close to shorelines rather than in the open ocean.
- But away from the haunts of man along the littoral is a region of startling beauty -- of rivers and lagoons and hills, their shores and slopes garmented with perennial verdure, the forest-seas bathing the bases of towering peaks.
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