abyssal

Again the fact that the soil was abyssal mud made it possible.

They are considered the world's most abyssal freshwater fish.

The upwelling water drags abyssal species to the surface and sometimes strands them on the shore.

This is a globally abyssal genus.

Many abyssal creatures have underslung jaws to sift through the sand to catch food.

There's only bed-rock and formerly abyssal mud.

The atmosphere barrier fields remained in force, but the chambers were plunged into abyssal night for the first time in twelve centuries.

Developed theory of the Earth's outgassing and abyssal inorganic origin of petroleum.

The depth of my desperation was so abyssal that I actually asked myself what the immortal Jackie Chan would do in a situation like this.

The squid exhibits abyssal gigantism.

It consists of 6 whorls, which glisten with that peculiar spun-glass or flossy luster noticeable in so many abyssal species.

Yama ran to the broken rail, but already the sleek shapes were sinking away through choppy water stained with abyssal silt.

In the series Claymore, Luciela, the abyssal one of the South, has an awakened form resembling a two-tailed cat demon.

Rugged, reddish-brown cliffs flanked abyssal canyons, and in the distance lay a range of charcoal-hued mountains topped with sun-splashed snowcaps.

They are abyssal plain scavengers with a keen sense of smell and are among the first to arrive at carrion, together with hagfish and rattails.

Along the Tonga Trench mantle-derived melts are transferred to the island arc systems, and abyssal oceanic sediments and fragments of oceanic crust are collected.

It was abyssal and perfect, as no silence on a telephone ever can be, without the faintest hiss or crackle of static, no hint of breathing or of breath held.

However, according to one of the scientific consultants on the film, Adam Summers, "Pearl would be pink mush since flapjack octopuses (Opisthoteuthis californiana) are abyssal creatures.

Under the direction of Lieutenant Gaetano Chierchia (1850-1922) the officers made marine zoological collections, carried out surveying, deep-sea soundings and made abyssal thermometrical measurements.

The evening of the 2nd of January saw the sad inevitable, and Stanley entered into a period of almost abyssal mourning, during which I endevoured to be respectfully attentive to his every need.

In zoology, deep-sea gigantism, also known as abyssal gigantism, is the tendency for species of invertebrates and other deep-sea dwelling animals to display a larger size than their shallower-water counterparts.

Don't let the button mashers get you down (and yes, your nephew, grandmother, and non-gaming SO will kill you from time to time); the game hides an almost abyssal depth beneath its cartoony surface.

On another wall was a huge mural of deep-sea life, where abyssal creatures with luminous eyes and fins and fiery body markings seemed to hang in dark water or rest on coral formations dusted with tiny white stars.

The forest is referred to by John Clute as an "abyssal chthonic resonator" because it creates and is home to myth-images, or mythagos, who are creatures (including animals, monsters and humans) generated from the ancient memories and myths within the subconscious memories of nearby human minds.