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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
bathyal is an adjective meaning "relating to ocean depths between 200 and 2000 meters (corresponds to the continental slope)". It carries one recorded sense.
relating to ocean depths between 200 and 2000 meters (corresponds to the continental slope)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bathyal come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.