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🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

espèce marine

Pronunciation / Transliteration: /ɛs.pɛs ma.ʁin/

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Marine species/məˈriːn ˈspiːʃiz/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"De nombreuses espèces marines vivent dans cet écosystème fragile."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    Organisms that live in the salt water of the sea or ocean or the brackish water of coastal estuaries.

    "Coral reefs support a vast diversity of marine species."
  2. 2

    Specific biological classifications of flora and fauna adapted to aquatic marine ecosystems.

    "Overfishing has severely threatened several migratory marine species."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'marine', derived from the Latin 'marinus' (belonging to the sea, from 'mare'), and 'species', from the Latin 'species' (a particular sort, kind, or appearance). Together, the phrase emerged in modern scientific terminology to categorize biological organisms inhabiting saltwater environments.

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