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the water that is well below the surface but also well above the bottom
many marine fishes inhabit the mid-waters
How To Use mid-water In A Sentence
- many marine fishes inhabit the mid-waters
- He proceeded to draw divisions between the bottom organisms without power of motion, benthon, the nekton motile life in mid-water, and the plankton or floating life. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I
- The aquanauts caught larvae at night, and the surface support team released them at mid-water to see where they headed - down to deeper waters, or up to shallower areas.
- Shoals of saddled bream and horse mackerel loitered mid-water.
- Briefly, animals were collected with a mid-water trawl net fitted with a light-tight, thermally insulated cod-end, brought to the surface in the closed cod-end, and sorted out under dim red light.