{"id":16337,"date":"2006-02-24T08:09:51","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T16:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/02\/24\/neritic.html"},"modified":"2006-02-24T08:09:51","modified_gmt":"2006-02-24T16:09:51","slug":"neritic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/02\/24\/neritic\/","title":{"rendered":"neritic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I just looked up \"oceanic,\" and the definition distinguished oceanic waters from \"littoral or neritic waters.\"<\/p>\n<p>I had a vague idea that \"littoral\" was something to do with margins, and indeed it turns out to describe things on or near the shore. But I don't think I had encountered \"neritic\" before; it refers to shallow coastal waters.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently \"neritic\" may derive from \"Nerita,\" a genus of marine snails.  Huh.<\/p>\n<p>While I'm here, I may as well note that \"pelagic\" means the same as \"oceanic\" in this context, whereas \"bathypelagic\" refers to the deeper ocean waters.  It's not clear to me whether \"abyssal\" is a synonym for \"bathypelagic\" or a step deeper yet.<\/p>\n<p>Littoral, neritic, pelagic, abyssal.  An impressive series of words.  Any suggestions for other impressive series?<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just looked up &#8220;oceanic,&#8221; and the definition distinguished oceanic waters from &#8220;littoral or neritic waters.&#8221; I had a vague idea that &#8220;littoral&#8221; was something to do with margins, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}