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tide pool

American  
Or tidepool

noun

  • tide pools
    plural
  1. tidal pool.


tide pool Scientific  

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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

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

Within the recreation area, the Tongue Point is a designated Marine Sanctuary and “some of the best tide pool habitat in Washington State,” according to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2021

A Bay Area father died after jumping into a tide pool in Oahu to rescue his drowning 6-year-old daughter who had been swept away by a wave over the weekend, Hawaii officials said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2016

He saw a jellyfish in a tide pool, and the swirl of the tentacles reminded him of the swirl of her hair, and then he spent the rest of his life painting pictures of jellyfish.

From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin

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