单词 | midshore |
释义 | midshoreadj. 1. Situated or occurring in the middle of a shore (viewed along a line from the sea to the land). ΚΠ 1957 Jrnl. Ecol. 45 254 At the northern stations..P. vulgata is the more common mid-shore limpet. 1966 F. H. Brightman Oxf. Bk. Flowerless Plants 8 Padina pavonia (Peacock's Tail) grows in summer and autumn at mid-shore level on sunny beaches in Southern England. 1995 P. J. Hayward in P. J. Hayward & J. S. Ryland Handbk. Marine Fauna N.W. Europe i. 17 A broad midshore region dominated by the brown algae. 2. Fishing (chiefly Canadian). Of or designating a fishing ground situated between the inshore and offshore areas of a particular stretch of water. ΚΠ 1985 Financial Post (Canada) (Nexis) 5 Oct. The Newfoundland government recently announced its intention to add a midshore fishery. 1993 Daily News (Halifax, Nova Scotia) 8 Oct. a17 ‘The money won't come to us..’, said Gilles Champoux, spokesman for the Quebec association of midshore fishermen. 1996 Amer. Jrnl. Agric. Econ. (Electronic ed.) 78 Chapter 3..describes..the different sizes of vessels in the fishing fleet and their range of operation, such as inshore, nearshore, midshore, and offshore fishing. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1957 |
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