neritic zone

1. 1.

   the ocean waters from the low tide mark to a depth of about 100 fathoms

   Broaderocean floor

Questions about neritic zone

What does neritic zone mean?

neritic zone means "the ocean waters from the low tide mark to a depth of about 100 fathoms".

Is neritic zone a common word?

neritic zone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.