Clitoral vs Littoral - What's the difference?
clitoral | littoral |
Of or relating to the shore, especially the seashore.
A shore.
* 1921 , Sir Charles Eliot
The zone of a coast between high tide and low tide levels.
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As adjectives the difference between clitoral and littoral
is that clitoral is of, or relating to the clitoris while littoral is of or relating to the shore, especially the seashore.As a noun littoral is
a shore.littoral
English
(wikipedia)Alternative forms
* (l)Adjective
(-)Usage notes
Specifically refers to the water at the shore, rather than the land, particularly in the phrase littoral zone.Quotations
"During his tenure, 'From the Sea' became the Navy-Marine Corps joint strategic concept, wherein the Navy and Marine Corps reoriented doctrinal focus toward littoral warfare." ? Semper Fidelis Memorandum for Retired Marines, Volume 58, No. 2Synonyms
* (relating to the seashore) intertidalCoordinate terms
* coastalNoun
(en noun)- ...these Chams belonged to the Malay-Polynesian group and their distribution along the littoral suggests that they were invaders from the sea...
citation, passage=The night was considerably clearer than anybody on board her desired when the schooner Ventura headed for the land. It rose in places, black and sharp against the velvety indigo, over her dipping bow, though most of the low littoral was wrapped in obscurity.}}
citation, passage=Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.}}