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littoral
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Littoral combat is a term in military and naval warfare. It refers to operations in and around the littoral zone , within a certain distance of shore, including surveillance , mine-clearing and support for landing operations and other types of combat shifting ...
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Littoral \Lit"to*ral\, a. [L. littoralis, litoralis, from littus, litus, the seashore: cf. F. littoral.] Of or pertaining to a shore, as of the sea. (Biol.) Inhabiting the seashore, esp. the zone between high-water and low-water mark.
Usage examples of littoral.
Although the coast and the immediate littoral were accurately recorded, the interior, as usual, had been left blank or filled with conjecture, apocryphal lakes and mountains that no eye had ever beheld.
Hal had expected but was broken up with hillocks, undulating grassy glades and streaks of dark green forest that seemed to follow the courses of the many small rivers that crisscrossed the littoral as they meandered down to the sea.
We left him on an abandoned platform somewhere in the South Littoral, but Aenea told him that submersibles would put in there within a day.
Most of the littoral plain between the hills and the sea was buildup from that erosion.
The tail, though of no great length, was strong, and used by the littoral creature to aid in water propulsion.
The sandbar keeps building up from the southerly littoral drift, and they have to dredge it every few months.
Therefore, at a time when the littoral regions of the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean, or the Gulf of Mexico already enjoyed a warmer climate, and became the seats of higher civilizations, immense territories in middle Europe, Siberia, and Northern America, as well as in Patagonia, Southern Africa, and Southern Australasia, remained in early postglacial conditions which rendered them inaccessible to the civilized nations of the torrid and sub-torrid zones.
Adriatic coast as poor and underpopulated, it was fairer and denser by far than the littoral of eastern Spain.
He would proceed up the Adriatic littoral through regions which had fought bitterly against Roman control of the peninsula- Marrucini, Vestini, Frentani, southern Picentines.
In a clearing, a garlanded courtesan of the Kauchique littoral danced the Dance of the Fourteen Silken Movements to the musk of flutes.
In a little cleared space a garlanded courtesan of the Kauchique littoral danced the Dance of the Fourteen Silken Movements to the music of flutes.
He had to believe that the gene banks had merely been a phase in an evolutionary story that stretched back from the present to the magical day when fife had first ventured forth from the littoral zones of the primordial ocean to embrace the land.
But at any rate they flooded the Sahara and made the North African littoral the loveliest land in the world.
And fine as it is on the strong coast, it is beautiful on the weak littoral and the imperilled levels of a northern beach.
In the great bird country of the north-eastern littoral of England, about Holy Island and the basaltic rocks, the shadows of the high birds are the movement and the pulse of the solitude.