marine animal marine creature sea animal sea creature | any of numerous animals inhabiting the sea including e.g. fishes and molluscs and many mammals |
sea turtle marine turtle | any of various large turtles with limbs modified into flippers, widely distributed in warm seas |
marine iguana Amblyrhynchus cristatus | shore-dwelling seaweed-eating lizard of the Galapagos Islands |
marine mussel mytilid | marine bivalve mollusk having a dark elongated shell, live attached to solid objects especially in intertidal zones |
aquarium fish tank marine museum | a tank or pool or bowl filled with water for keeping live fish and underwater animals |
floating mine marine mine | an explosive mine designed to destroy ships that bump into it |
mercantile establishment retail store sales outlet outlet | a place of business for retailing goods |
shipping cargo ships merchant marine merchant vessels | conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry |
marine archeology marine archaeology underwater archeology underwater archaeology | the archeology of underwater sites |
United States Marine Corps United States Marines Marine Corps US Marine Corps USMC | an amphibious division of the United States Navy |
Marine Corps Intelligence Activity MCIA | an agency of the United States Marine Corps that provides responsive and broad intelligence support for the worldwide Marine Corps organization |
merchant marine | the crew of a merchant vessel |
mercantile agency commercial agency | an organization that provides businesses with credit ratings of other firms, Dun & Bradstreet is the largest mercantile agency in the United States |
mercantilism mercantile system | an economic system (Europe in th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests |
maritime law marine law admiralty law | the branch of international law that deals with territorial and international waters or with shipping or with ocean fishery etc. |
mercantile law commercial law law merchant | the body of rules applied to commercial transactions, derived from the practices of traders rather than from jurisprudence |
Marine devil dog leatherneck shipboard soldier | a member of the United States Marine Corps |
marine | a soldier who serves both on shipboard and on land |
marine engineer naval engineer | a naval officer responsible for the operation and maintenance of the ship's engines |
marine glue | glue that is not water soluble |
marine | native to or inhabiting the sea, marine plants and animals such as seaweed and whales |
mercantile | relating to or characteristic of trade or traders, the mercantile North was forging ahead- Van Wyck Brooks |
mercantile mercenary moneymaking(a) | profit oriented, a commercial book, preached a mercantile and militant patriotism- John Buchan, a mercenary enterprise, a moneymaking business |
marine | relating to or characteristic of or occurring on or in the sea |
marine | of or relating to the sea, marine explorations |
marine | of or relating to military personnel who serve both on land and at sea (specifically the U.S. Marine Corps), marine barracks |
nautical maritime marine | relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen, nautical charts, maritime law, marine insurance |
mercantile | of or relating to the economic system of mercantilism, mercantile theories, mercantile system |