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nepheloid (iou)



nepheloid adjective. L19.
[from Greek nephele cloud + -OID.]
Cloudy; chiefly (Oceanography) in nepheloid layer, a layer about a kilometre (3300 ft) thick in deep water, esp. in the western N. Atlantic, that is turbid owing to suspended mineral matter.
? Only in Dicts. before M20.