a. [SUB- 11.] Lying near the sea-shore or just below the shore-line or littoral zone.
1846. Smart, Suppl.
1849. Sk. Nat. Hist., Mammalia, IV. 180. The sublittoral formation in which they had been originally deposited.
1849. Darwin, in Herschel, Man. Sci. Enq., 177. Our observations … on the alluvial and sub-littoral deposits of these latitudes.
1897. Geogr. Jrnl., Aug., 133. I should estimate that round the Pacific there are at least ten sublittoral districts where earthquake-frequency may be about half that of Japan.
