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

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tide pool

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

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

He will wade in a tide pool up to the chest without feeling damp, but a drop of rain water on his head makes him panicky.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck