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Synonyms for abyssal

Grammar : Adj
Spell : uh-bis-uh l
Phonetic Transcription : əˈbɪs əl

Définition of abyssal

Origin :
  • 1690s, used especially of the zone of ocean water below 300 fathoms, from abyss + -al (1). Though the 19th century, abysmal was more common in oceanography.
  • adj unfathomable
Example sentences :
  • When Dr. Morton said there were abyssal fish in the lagoon, I knew why they'd be there.
  • Extract from : « Creatures of the Abyss » by Murray Leinster
  • Core-takers had been dropped to get samplings of abyssal mud.
  • Extract from : « Creatures of the Abyss » by Murray Leinster
  • Such a rock is necessarily oceanic; but more than this, it is abyssal.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Earth and Man » by J. W. Dawson
  • In their morphological characters they gradually approach the pelagic forms upwards and the abyssal downwards.
  • Extract from : « Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, First Part: Porulosa (Spumellaria and Acantharia) » by Ernst Haeckel
  • Dimya; recent in abyssal depths and fossil since the Jurassic.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 16, Slice 1 » by Various
  • No other mountains in the world are at once so continuously lofty and so near a coast which drops off to abyssal depths.
  • Extract from : « The Andes of Southern Peru » by Isaiah Bowman
  • A third haunt of life is the floor of the Deep Sea, the abyssal area, which occupies more than a half of the surface of the globe.
  • Extract from : « The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) » by J. Arthur Thomson
  • Some of the limestones are made of Foraminifera, together with Radiolaria, and indicate a subsidence to abyssal depths.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 2 » by Various
  • When the tormenting noise-beam struck again, the abyssal monster flung itself about crazily.
  • Extract from : « Creatures of the Abyss » by Murray Leinster
  • The known deposits all point to shallow waters of epicontinental seas; no abyssal formations have been recognized.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 » by Various

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