Crossword clues for abyssal
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abyssal \A*byss"al\, a. [Cf. Abysmal.] Belonging to, or resembling, an abyss; unfathomable.
Abyssal zone (Phys. Geog.), one of the belts or zones into which Sir E. Forbes divides the bottom of the sea in describing its plants, animals, etc. It is the one furthest from the shore, embracing all beyond one hundred fathoms deep. Hence, abyssal animals, plants, etc.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context archaic English) Belonging to, or resembling, an abyss; unfathomable. (First attested in the mid 17th century.) 2 (context geography English) Of or belonging to the ocean depths, especially below 2000 metres (6500 ft): ''abyssal zone''. (First attested in the mid 19th century.) 3 (context geology English) Pertaining to or occurring at excessive depths in the earth's crust; plutonic. (First attested in the late 19th century.)
WordNet
adj. relating to ocean depths from 2000 to 5000 meters
so deep as to be unmeasurable; "the abyssal depths of the ocean" [syn: abysmal, unfathomable]
Wikipedia
Abyssal is an EP by the Japanese screamo band Envy. Abyssal likens itself with Insomniac Doze's more atmospheric sound. Recorded and mixed at Bazooka Higashinakano, Spring 2007. Mastered at Parasight Mastering. Includes booklet with lyrics in both Japanese & English.
Usage examples of "abyssal".
What little that remained unobliterated in the way of deep human emotions in Bill twinged ever so slightly, lifted their heads feebly from the abyssal depths of depression and, like frail shoots in April lured on by the siren promise of spring, began to flower with weensy buds of hope.
His mind ran on, writing its own obituary: Peron of Turcanta, twenty years old, who survived the dunes of Talimantor Desert, the night woods of Villasylvia, the Hendrack Maze, the water caverns of Charant, the Capandor glaciers, the abyssal depths of the Lackro Trench .
As the abyssal ascension gave rise to this luminescent benthic epiphany, more and more of the crew crowded to the port side to gape.
International Colloquium of Cryptozoologists, Nancy Derringer had trudged through Himalayan snows for Yeti, plumbed deep-water lakes all over the Americas and the British Isles for surviving plesiosaurs, and penetrated abyssal depths in quest of garagantuan cephalopods.
CunsnuC were more of a problem, and were likely to present the greater problem for all that they were confined to their abyssal home.
In specially constructed bathyspheres, and once in the International Hard Suit unit called a Newtsuit, the abyssal deep had been penetrated to the depth most commonly found in the international maritime atlas, 1382 meters.
Granite chippings trickled over the edges, to be swallowed silently by the abyssal darkness which had been uncovered.
The climb from the abyssal plain to the continental shelf had worn them out, and only the two-day exploration of the city had allowed them to recover.
Apart from the fact that there was sand rather than ooze underfoot, this place reminded him of the abyssal plain.
The eruption is believed to be taking place on the abyssal plain near a deep sea landmark known as the Scotia Ridge, in water that is approximately two miles deep.
The valley ends just about where the Abyssal Plain begins, at seven hundred miles off the coast, and seventeen thousand feet down.
Maybe Max packed his treasure in an airtight, pressure-resistant container and ditched his plane in the ocean over the mid-Pacific abyssal plain, where it sank in two miles of water.
Steep slopes rose up for thousands of meters above a dark, abyssal plain far below.
Then the machines penetrated the dark basalt of the deep-ocean crust below the Tagus Abyssal Plain.
Besides that, tankers do less damage if they sink in deep water rather than break up on a coast, and we're over the Iberian Abyssal Plain here.