inframedian en · ADJ
Etymology
From infra- + median.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of or relating to the interval or zone along the sea bottom, at the depth of between fifty and one hundred fathoms.
The inframedian zone ranges from fifty fathoms to a hundred.
1853, The Annual of Scientific Discovery, page 342: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.
1863, David Page ·, Introductory Text-book of Physical Geography, page 168:
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(not-comparable) Below the middle.
Oogonium with projections or lateral pleating of the wall (flange ) ; circumcision supramedian , median , submedian or distinctly inframedian, sometimes resembling a hinged pore.
2006, P. M. McCarthy, Lyn Jessup, Algae of Australia - Volume 3, page 51:From the ventral apices of the two lateral cartilages, the two inframedian radular tensors run upwards and slightly forwards.
1964, Emile S. Demian, The Anatomy of the Alimentary System of Marisa Cornuarietis (L.), page 39:Gl. oculatum is easily distinguished from these by the fact that it bears no spines and by the median rather than inframedian girdle.
1950, Theodor Karl Just, Lloydia - Volume 13, page 295: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.
1930, C. C. A. Monro, Polychaete Worms, page 231: