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Word of the Day (Friday October 3, 2008)
littoral \LIH-tuh-rul\, adjective:
Pronunciation: http://0rz.tw/ec4U6
1. Of, relating to, or on a coastal or shore region, especially
a seashore.
noun:
1. A coastal region, especially the zone between the limits of
high and low tides.
Professor Henslow tells me, he believes that nearly all the plants
which I brought from these islands, are common littoral species in
the East Indian archipelago.
-- Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle
A country that is landlocked or has few neighbors will be more
vulnerable than one that is littoral or extensive.
-- Franklin L. Lavin,, "Asphyxiation or Oxygen? The Sanctions
Dilemma", Foreign Policy, September-October 1996
Like 49ers staking claims in California, the five littoral nations
have asserted overlapping territorial claims in the Caspian itself.
-- Richard Stone, "Caspian Ecology Teeters On the Brink", Science,
January 18, 2002
As the Portuguese moved south along the Upper Guinea Coast along
the littoral of Sierra Leone, a region known as the Windward
Coast, they entered another major area of rice cultivation.
-- Judith A. Carney, Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice
Cultivation in the Americas
Littoral derives from Latin littoralis, litoralis, from litor-,
litus, "the seashore."
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