English Dictionary

mediterranean sea

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌmɛ.dɪ.təˈɹeɪ.nɪ.ən ˈsiː/

名詞

(oceanography) A mostly enclosed sea that has limited exchange of deep water with outer oceans, and where the water circulation is dominated by salinity and temperature differences rather than winds.

日本語の意味

ほぼ囲まれた海。外洋との水交換が限定的で、風よりも塩分や温度の差による水循環が支配的な海域。

Marine biologists examined how the mediterranean sea's limited deep-water exchange influences nutrient cycles and local fisheries.

海洋生物学者たちは、ほとんど閉ざされた海である地中海が深層水を外洋とほとんど交換しないことが栄養塩循環や沿岸漁業に与える影響を調査した。

意味（1）

(oceanography) A mostly enclosed sea that has limited exchange of deep water with outer oceans, and where the water circulation is dominated by salinity and temperature differences rather than winds.

To this day they haue not diſouered at the Indies any Mediterranean Sea, as in Europe, Aſia, and Affrica, into the which there enters ſome arme of this great Sea, and makes diſtinct Seas, taking their names from the Prouinces they waſh: and almoſt all of the Mediterranean Seas continue and ioyne together, and with the Ocean it ſelfe, by the ſtraight of Gibraltar, which the Ancients called, the Pillers of Hercules, […]

mediterranean seas （ plural ）