tidal pool

American  

noun

1. a pool of water remaining on a reef, shore platform, or beach after the tide has receded.

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tidal pool Scientific  

1. A pool of water remaining after a tide has retreated. The physical conditions of the tidal pool can change significantly throughout the day as the temperature of its water fluctuates with solar heating and its salinity increases with evaporation. As a result, tidal pools are harsh environments for the organisms that inhabit them.

2. Also called tide pool

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Example Sentences

The architect Henry N. Cobb worked with the landscape designer Walter Hood and the exhibitions designer Ralph Applebaum to fill the 100,000-square-foot space with nine galleries; a genealogy center for visitors researching their own ancestries; and a memorial garden with a tidal pool.

From New York Times

A black sponge that encrusts tidal pool rocks in southern Japan, Halichondria okadai, produced a drug, now marketed as Halaven, to treat late-stage breast cancer.

From Scientific American

The artist’s “Self Portrait” places a small figure on a rock by a tidal pool, dwarfed by sea and sky.

From Washington Post

The second, a humpback already days dead, was washed into a tidal pool outside Sydney, where it was, by turns, gawked at and grieved by a crowd of the curious.

From Washington Post

I let go of her sharing with her grandchild the magic of a tidal pool, or the joy of a favorite book.

From Washington Post