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Oceanic

adjective

Relating to or occurring or living in or frequenting the open ocean. Synonym: pelagic. "Oceanic currents" , "Oceanic birds" , "Pelagic organisms" , "Pelagic whaling"

Resembling the ocean in apparent limitlessness in extent or degree.

Constituting or living in the open sea. "Oceanic life"

noun

An eastern subfamily of Malayo-Polynesian languages. Synonym: Eastern Malayo-Polynesian.

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"Oceanic" Quotes from Famous Books

... and insignificance. I pictured to myself an assembly of old fogies crammed with all the 'ologies. I broke into a cold perspiration when I fancied myself called upon to deliver a lecture on the comparative sea-bottomy of the Oceanic globe, or give my theory of the simultaneous sighting by 'little Billee' of ' Madagascar, and North, and South Amerikee.' Honestly, I had not the courage to accept; and, young Jackanapes as I was, ...

— Tracks of a Rolling Stone • Henry J. Coke

... the Skagerrak is certainly of oceanic origin; it has been found to suffer changes of long period, and it is probably not always composed of water derived from the same part or the same depth of the North Atlantic; this water is, as a rule, deficient in oxygen. The "North Sea" ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 - "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" • Various

... The alabaster halls of the air will be filled with those who will throng up from all the cemeteries of all the ages—from Greyfriar's Churchyard and Roman Catacomb, from Westminster Abbey and from the coral crypts of oceanic cave, and some will rend off the bandage of Egyptian mummy, and others will remove from their brow the garland of green sea-weed. From the north and the south and the east and the west they come. The dead! The trumpet! ...

— New Tabernacle Sermons • Thomas De Witt Talmage

... Moon enterprise in a balloon would to a world-weary globe-trotter of to-day. It was not merely that the ship was small and the Atlantic large and stormy; there were legends of vast whirlpools, of abysmal oceanic cataracts, of sea-monsters, malignant genii, and other portents not less terrifying and fatal. Columbus would not have been surprised at falling in with any of these things; but the physical courage which must have been his most prominent trait, ...

— The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 • Julian Hawthorne

... always had a great liking for the study of material plants and animals, and I was so much interested in the occurrence of this novel phenomenon—the growth and development of an oceanic island before my very eyes—that I determined to devote the next few thousand centuries or so of my aeonian existence to watching the ...

— Science in Arcady • Grant Allen

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