English to Shona Meaning of pelagic - pelagic

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Definitions of pelagic in English

Adjective(1) relating to or occurring or living in or frequenting the open ocean

Examples of pelagic in English

(1) While blue whales may occasionally feed on pelagic crabs and small fishes, their diet is almost exclusively euphausiid shrimps commonly called krill.(2) Eleven companies each with a 15-year term will catch large pelagic fish.(3) The hors d' oeuvres consist of the small pelagic fish that swim in the natural eddy created by the country's jutting landmass.(4) These sites provide the most exciting diving, with shoaling barracuda and other pelagic fish, but sadly they tend to be few and far between.(5) Each year, every migration of every pelagic fish depends on where the plankton is and this is purely down to drift and current.(6) Most deep-sea trenches in the Pacific are floored by normal basaltic oceanic crust overlain by pelagic sediments and ash.(7) On calm days, dive trips go to the windward side of the island to search for large schools of pelagic fish: bronze whaler sharks, hammerheads, mantas and sometimes oceanic white tips.(8) The pelagic environment is further divided based on water depth.(9) Adult beluga sturgeon are mainly piscivores, swimming at middle depths and preying mostly on pelagic fish species.(10) Farmed salmon eat two to five pounds of protein for every pound of weight gained - protein that comes from small pelagic fish like anchovies, mackerel, herring, and sardines.(11) Under such conditions, we predict that more social otters would have diets higher in better quality pelagic fishes, compared with otters that exhibit low levels of sociality.(12) Aquatic ecologists have many models for size distributions of pelagic communities.(13) Among coastal river otters in this region, sociality could be explained by the benefits obtained from cooperative foraging on high-quality schooling pelagic fishes.(14) Their diet includes squid, skates, ratfish, rockfish, and octopus, as well as pelagic fishes such as mackerel and sardines.(15) Advances will soon lead to using these listening stations for fish as pelagic receivers where physiological data sets can be archived and downloaded as the fish swim by.(16) The pelagic fish community is dominated by whitefish.

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1. oceanic ::

Oceanic

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