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[ US /ˈɫɪtɝəɫ/ ]
[ UK /lˈɪtəɹə‍l/ ]
NOUN
  1. the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to a coastal or shore region

How To Use littoral In A Sentence

  • Similarly, redundancy analysis showed that minimum winter or spring temperature significantly influenced the relative abundance of littoral taxa in seven lakes.
  • The second stretches northward along the littoral, fanning outward to the east in a broad arc encompassing the area around Aleppo.
  • In this initiative he reversed the whole purpose of Sweden's great mission to its people stranded along the Delaware littoral, which had been to preserve their national character in the midst of Pennsylvanian chaos.
  • The Vietnam War highlighted the US Navy's need for better abilities within the littoral, or near-shore, environment, but the drawdowns after the war left the Navy Special Warfare barely existing.
  • These lakes have permanent thermoclines, small littoral zones, and deep hypolimnia.
  • Efforts already under way to improve operational effectiveness in littoral waters against a continental power armed with modern missiles and asymmetric capabilities and tactics must be continued.
  • Thence it was gathered into the great littoral current flowing from Africa to Asia, and formed an incurvated coast-line ending in the headland of Casios, on the Syrian frontier. History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12)
  • The littoral sediments of the experimental lakes are primarily flocculent organic material including abundant epipelon.
  • Moscow and Tehran recently avoided a potentially damaging row over the legal status of the Caspian Sea and sharing its energy resources by putting off the summit of the littoral states.
  • Yet the countries along its littoral have no means of providing security to themselves.
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