LITTORAL

PRONUNCIATION: (LIT-uhr-uhl)

MEANING: adjective: Relating to or situated at the shore.
noun: A shore, especially the area between high tide and low tide levels.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin litus (shore). Earliest documented use: 1656.
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LITTERAL - shorelines and beaches covered with picnickers' garbage

LIT-MORAL - short, pithy, sometimes cryptic saying found at the end of each fable

LILT-ORAL - a song