Definitions for littorals

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littorals lit·to·ral

Spelling: [lit-er-uh l]

IPA: /ˈlɪt ər əl/

Littorals is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 398 anagrams from letters in littorals (aillorstt).

Definitions for littorals

noun

1. a littoral region.

adjective

1. of or relating to the shore of a lake, sea, or ocean.
2. (on ocean shores) of or relating 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 relating to the region of freshwater lake beds from the sublittoral zone up to and including damp areas on shore. Compare intertidal.

Origin of littorals

1650-60; Latin littorālis, variant of lītorālis of the shore, equivalent to lītor- (stem of lītus) shore + -ālis -al¹

Examples for littorals

These remarks apply chiefly to littoral and sublittoral deposits.

ASW assets and crews have been diverted to reconnaissance missions in overland and littoral wars.

Mexican national life has not developed much upon the littoral.

There is one Headman of some importance between them and the littoral.

The motor-boat was nearing the centre of a deep indentation in the littoral.

But the littoral of Western Africa is gifted with a flora as luxuriant as it is varied.

They are, for the most part, shallow-water or littoral forms.

Maize is very prolific throughout the littoral and on the tableland.

Later he was entrusted with the control of the whole of the Mediterranean littoral.

It had been repacked in littoral sand only found in an ancient sea-board in Germany.