coastal

From coast +‎ -al.

• Hyphenation: coas‧tal
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊstəl/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊstəl/
• Rhymes: -əʊstəl

coastal (comparative more coastal, superlative most coastal)

1. (geography) Relating to the coast; on or near the coast; longshore.

   coastal town

   coastal breeze

   coastal elites

   • 2015 July 31, “Morphologically Cryptic Amphipod Species Are “Ecological Clones” at Regional but Not at Local Scale: A Case Study of Four Niphargus Species”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     These included other Niphargus species from deep cave lakes and coastal anchihaline caves [23 ] and Gammarus and Echinogammarus amphipods that live only in permanently watered streams [21 ,24 ].

• aquatic
• (sometimes) marine

• littoral

• salacot