Synonyms for pelagic
pəˈlædʒ ɪkpelag·ic

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1. oceanic, pelagicadjective

   relating to or occurring or living in or frequenting the open ocean

   "oceanic islands like Bermuda"; "oceanic currents"; "oceanic birds"; "pelagic organisms"; "pelagic whaling"

   Synonyms:
   oceanic

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1. List of paraphrases for "pelagic":

   pelagics, free-swimming, mid-water, ocean-going, archipelagic, offshore, distant-water, deep-sea, off-shore

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pelagic

   Synonyms:
   Pertaining to open sea
   

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1. James Sulikowski:

   Makos are a very hot topic and high priority species now, because the population is on the decline. There ... is a petition to see if makos should be listed as a threatened or endangered species in U.S. waters, our work is helping understand and mitigate interactions with pelagic longline fishing gear.

2. Courtesy Linsey Haram/Smithsonian Institution Haram:

   Quite a large percentage of the diversity that we found were coastal species and not the the native pelagic open ocean species that we were largely expecting to find.

3. Cala Gonone:

   The mother lives in the large pelagic tub with another female specimen. If confirmed by DNA analysis, it would be the world's first documented parthenogenesis documented by Mustelus Mustelus. Ispera, the name chosen for the little one, in Sardinian means hope and a birth in the [COVID-19] era it certainly is.