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Oceanic

adjective

Relating to or occurring or living in or frequenting the open ocean. Synonym: pelagic. "Oceanic currents" , "Oceanic birds" , "Pelagic organisms" , "Pelagic whaling"

Resembling the ocean in apparent limitlessness in extent or degree.

Constituting or living in the open sea. "Oceanic life"

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"Oceanic" Quotes from Famous Books

... years, to recall the delight with which one first read the 'Coral Reefs'; how one watched the facts being marshalled into their places, nothing being ignored or passed lightly over; and how, step by step, one was led to the grand conclusion of wide oceanic subsidence. No more admirable example of scientific method was ever given to the world, and even if he had written nothing else, the treatise alone would have placed Darwin in the very ...

— The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume I • Francis Darwin

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