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pelagian, a.2 and n.2|pɪˈleɪdʒɪən|
[f. L. pelagi-us (see pelagial) + -an.]
A. adj.
†1. Of or pertaining to the pelagiæ conchæ or sea shells whence purple dye was obtained. (Cf. L. pelagium purple colour.) Obs.
1601Holland Pliny II. 259 The Tyrians make their deep red purple, by dipping their wool first in the liquor of the Pelagian purples.
2. Of, pertaining to, or inhabiting the open sea or ocean; pelagic.
1746Da Costa in Phil. Trans. XLIV. 400 They are no pelagian Shells, as those are; Bays and Harbours are the Places where they are fish'd. 1776― Conchol. 66 Some [shell-fish] are pelagian, or inhabit only the deeps of the sea. 1832Lyell Princ. Geol. II. 126 A line of shoals may be as impassable to pelagian species, as are the Alps and the Andes to plants and animals peculiar to plains.
b. Inhabiting islands in the open sea or ocean.
1842Prichard Nat. Hist. Man (ed. 2) 346 Pelagian Negroes have long been well known as inhabitants of the interior of the Penang Islands.
B. n. An inhabitant of the open sea or ocean.
1854Badham Halieut. 75 The Mediterranean pelagians (or open sea-fish) have neither brilliancy of colour, nor delicacy of flesh. |