Word Meanings - OCEANOGRAPHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A description of the ocean.

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• OCEAN
  1. The whole body of salt water which covers more than three fifths of the surface of the globe; -- called also the sea, or great sea. Like the odor of brine from the ocean Comes the thought of other years. Longfellow. 2. One of the large bodies
• OCEANUS
  The god of the great outer sea, or the river which was believed to flow around the whole earth.
• OCEANOLOGY
  That branch of science which relates to the ocean.
• DESCRIPTION
  1. The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs. 2. A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species. Milton has descriptions
• OCEANOGRAPHY
  A description of the ocean.
• OCEANIC
  1. Of or pertaining to the ocean; found or formed in or about, or produced by, the ocean; frequenting the ocean, especially mid-ocean. Petrels are the most aërial and oceanic of birds. Darwin. 2. Of or pertaining to Oceania or its inhabitants.
• INTEROCEANIC
  Between oceans; connecting oceans; as, interoceanic communication; an interoceanic canal.