(n) an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and other natural disasters related to weather, Syn. NOAA
(adj) relating to or occurring or living in or frequenting the open ocean, Syn. pelagic, Example:oceanic islands like Bermuda; oceanic currents; oceanic birds; pelagic organisms; pelagic whaling
(n) a large group of islands in the south Pacific including Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia (and sometimes Australasia and the Malay Archipelago), Syn. Oceanica
a. [ Cf. F. océanique. See Ocean. ] 1. Of or pertaining to the ocean; found or formed in or about, or produced by, the ocean; frequenting the ocean, especially mid-ocean. [ 1913 Webster ]
Petrels are the most aerial and oceanic of birds. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. Of or pertaining to Oceania or its inhabitants. [ 1913 Webster ]
[东太平洋隆起 / 東太平洋隆起, Dōng Tài píng yáng lóng qǐㄉㄨㄥ ㄊㄞˋ ㄆㄧㄥˊ ㄧㄤˊ ㄌㄨㄥˊ ㄑㄧˇ] East Pacific rise (a mid-oceanic ridge stretching from California down to Antarctica)
[garapagosuzame] (n) Galapagos shark (Carcharhinus galapagensis, species of circumtropical requiem shark found in the reef environments around oceanic islands)