maritime

comparative more maritime · superlative most maritime

1. Relating to or connected with the sea or its uses (as navigation, commerce, etc.).

   maritime law

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   maritime insurance

   maritime risks

   maritime museum

   I enjoy maritime activities such as yachting and deep sea diving.

   “I have visited my quarters, and find them very comfortable.[…]Steerage is like everything else maritime[…]vastly improved since Robert Louis Stevenson took his trip third class to New York.”

   1913, Robert Barr, chapter 1, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad

2. Bordering on the sea; living near the seacoast; coastal.

   the maritime states; a maritime people

3. biologyInhabiting the seashore; living coastwise; littoral. (distinguished from marine)

   a maritime bird or animal

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   On the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and northernmost Florida, maritime forests are dominated by live oaks (Quercus virginiana), and occur as large contiguous patches of forest on barrier islands, the immediate mainland, and as small patches (oak hammocks) scattered among coastal marshes.

   2004 March, Scott G. Somershoe, C. Ray Chandler, “Use of Oak Hammocks by Neotropical Migrant Songbirds: the Role of Area and Habitat”, in The Wilson Bulletin, volume 116, number 1, Lawrence, KS: Wilson Ornithological Society, page 56

4. Of or relating to a sailor or seaman; nautical.