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Oceanic   Listen
adjective
Oceanic  adj.  
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 aerial and oceanic of birds."
2.
Of or pertaining to Oceania or its inhabitants.





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"Oceanic" Quotes from Famous Books



... commencing at the mouth of the Red Sea in the west, reaches to the mouth of the gulf of Persia, being the oceanic coast of Arabia. From the mouth of the Red Sea in lat. 12 deg. 40' N. to the city of Aden, is 44 leagues: Thence to Cape Fartaque in lat. 12 deg. 30' N. is 100 leagues, containing the towns of Abian, Ax, Canacan, ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VI - Early English Voyages Of Discovery To America • Robert Kerr
... them to the window and pointed toward the harbor where thousands of black specks were tumbling into the water. "They're destroying themselves! Some jumping from buildings but most pouring toward the sea, a kind of oceanic urge to escape completely from themselves, to bury themselves in something infinitely bigger than their separate hollow beings. Before they were more like contented robots. Now they're more like suicidal lemmings because they can't exist without this common brain to which they've ...
— Cerebrum • Albert Teichner
... muscular strength and energy, gathering itself together into a compact purple tassell or worm. The jelly-fish were also remarkably beautiful, with their graceful movements and purple glancing hues. This Aquarium certainly gave us a little comprehension of the marvellous beauty of oceanic life. ...
— Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo • W. Cope Devereux
... Of the congregated Fall, And the angle oceanic Where the deepening thunders call— And the Gorge so grim, And the firmamental rim! Multitudinously thronging The waters all converge, Then they sweep adown ...
— Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War • Herman Melville
... to Agius ("Memoria," 1871), in the European market the Manila tobacco was admitted to be without any rival, with the sole exception of the Vuelta abajo of Cuba; and most certainly in the Asiatic and Oceanic ports its superior quality was undisputed, as the Havana tobacco loses its flavor on the long voyage to these countries; but now, from year to year, it is surely losing its reputation. If, then, the Manila cigars have not ...
— The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes • Fedor Jagor; Tomas de Comyn; Chas. Wilkes; Rudolf Virchow.


Words linked to "Oceanic" :   marine, ocean, Fijian, Hawaiian, oceanic whitetip shark, unlimited, Tahitian, Polynesian, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, limitless, oceanic bird, pelagic, Eastern Malayo-Polynesian


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