deepwater
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- noun
- /ˈdiːpˌwɔːtər/
:
aguas profundas
- The difference in size between the deepwater group and blue rockfish shrank from 10 cm in 1991 to only 5 cm by 1994.
- deepwater snapper
- deepwater species
Examples
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The change in target species from shallow-water species to deepwater species in 1977-78 increased the mean length of combined rockfish in the catch.
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Relatively little is known about the reproduction and early life history of deepwater snappers in Hawaii.
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As the catch shifted to deepwater species by 1977, the mean length increased.
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The smaller size of the deepwater species has noticeably affected the overall mean length.
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Several different stock assessment approaches have been applied to the Hawaiian deepwater snapper fishery.
Academic text (1993) -
Little information currently exists on larval development, settlement, or early juvenile life history of deepwater snappers in Hawaii.
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Grouping the species together by fishing depths reveals the influence of deepwater species on the overall mean length (Fig. 9).
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The larger deepwater species (bocaccio and chilipepper) are harvested mostly by the commercial fisheries.
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The commercially important deepwater lutjanids inhabit the deep slopes of island coasts and banks at depths of 100 to 400 m.
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The research team discovered unique marine life in the deepwater regions of the ocean.
Synonyms
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A very low, steep part of the ocean floor
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The deepest parts of the ocean far below the surface where little or no sunlight reaches
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The lowest parts of a place or a feeling
Antonyms
Compounds
A small sea fish with a long thin body and a tube-shaped snout about 20 cm long
A fish found in the western Atlantic from South Carolina to Bermuda and the Gulf of Mexico
How Deep
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Deepwater comes from deep ('far down') and water ('sea or lake'), and it names the deep, far-off parts of a sea or lake where sunlight cannot reach.