inframedian

English

Etymology

From infra- +‎ median.

Adjective

inframedian (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the interval or zone along the sea bottom, at the depth of between fifty and one hundred fathoms[from 1853].
   • 1853, The Annual of Scientific Discovery, page 342:

     The inframedian zone ranges from fifty fathoms to a hundred.

   • 1863, David Page ·, Introductory Text-book of Physical Geography, page 168:

     Thus, in the British seas naturalists speak of a littoral, laminarian, coralline, and coral zone; an in the ocean genrally, of a littoral, circum-littoral, median, inframedian, and abyssal or deep-sea zone.

2. (biology) Below the middle.
   • 1930, C. C. A. Monro, Polychaete Worms, page 231:

     Thus the upper, inframedian and carinal laterals have three layers, but the rostrum and rostro-laterals, which appear at a later stage, have only two.

   • 1950, Theodor Karl Just, Lloydia - Volume 13, page 295:

     Gl. oculatum is easily distinguished from these by the fact that it bears no spines and by the median rather than inframedian girdle.

   • 1964, Emile S. Demian, The Anatomy of the Alimentary System of Marisa Cornuarietis (L.), page 39:

     From the ventral apices of the two lateral cartilages, the two inframedian radular tensors run upwards and slightly forwards.

   • 2006, P. M. McCarthy, Lyn Jessup, Algae of Australia - Volume 3, page 51:

     Oogonium with projections or lateral pleating of the wall (flange ) ; circumcision supramedian , median , submedian or distinctly inframedian, sometimes resembling a hinged pore.

Anagrams

• Friedmanian