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Definition of Marine animal
1. Noun. Any of numerous animals inhabiting the sea including e.g. fishes and molluscs and many mammals.
Generic synonyms: Animal, Animate Being, Beast, Brute, Creature, Fauna
Specialized synonyms: By-catch, Bycatch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marine Animal
Literary usage of Marine animal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Foods and Their Adulteration: Origin, Manufacture, and Composition of Food by Harvey Washington Wiley (1917)
"As these oils are derived both from sea and land animals they are often conveniently
divided into marine animal oils and terrestrial animal oils. ..."
2. Chemical Technology and Analysis of Oils, Fats, and Waxes by Julius Lewkowitsch (1904)
"The specific gravities of the marine animal oils vary between 0-901 and 0'930.
The saponification values of some of the blubber oils deviate widely in both ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1899)
"(1) The Relations between marine animal and Vegetable Life in Aquaria ; (2) The
Relations between the Hybrid and Parent Forms of ..."
4. Due South: Or, Cuba Past and Present by Maturin Murray Ballou (1889)
"marine animal Life. — The Bahama Banks. — Burial at Sea. — Venal Officials.
— Historical Characters. — The Early Buccaneers. — Diving for Drinking-Water. ..."
5. Treatise on Applied Analytical Chemistry by Vittorio Villavecchia (1918)
"The oil may be adulterated with mineral, vegetable or marine animal oils, ...
marine animal oils raise the specific gravity and the iodine number and may be ..."
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