tide pool

American  

Or tidepool

noun

tide pools plural

1. tidal pool.

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tide pool Scientific  

1. See tidal pool

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• tide pools
  plural

Example Sentences

Or the parfaits served at Kamebishi Co., one of Japan’s oldest soy sauce brewers, where soy sauce gelato melts into something creamy and briny, like a tide pool made decadent.

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2025

She has said problems arose after she dropped her phone in a tide pool on 2020’s Fourth of July holiday and sought help from the city’s information technology department.

From Seattle Times • May 12, 2023

Like a powder-coated bee spreading pollen from plant to plant, isopods spread spermatia throughout a tide pool as they travel between seaweed clumps.

From Scientific American • Jul. 28, 2022

That relatively hefty punishment made prosecutors and then wardens reluctant to go after someone who, for example, may have unknowingly pocketed a starfish from an off-limits tide pool.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2016

Everyone has come and gone, piles of shells pulled in and out of waves, and I'm still here, a skeleton of a sea creature, dropped in this tide pool, living, watching, still living.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper