tide pool
noun
: a pool of salt water left (as in a rock basin) by an ebbing tide
called also tidal pool
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Horn sharks occasionally will enter tide pools to eat the creatures there.
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Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
The trail runs from bluffs and rocky boulder fields to the beach, where tide pools brim with starfish and coastal birds soar overhead.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2025
After talking with many scientists, host Regina G. Barber found that an abundance of water on Earth is most likely key, in some way, to the origin of life — specifically, in either deep sea hydrothermal vents or in tide pools.
—Rebecca Ramirez, NPR, 11 Aug. 2025
Along the way, pause at shallow tide pools to spot fiddler crabs scuttling in the surf.
—New York Times, 31 July 2025
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Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
The trail runs from bluffs and rocky boulder fields to the beach, where tide pools brim with starfish and coastal birds soar overhead.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 18 Aug. 2025
After talking with many scientists, host Regina G. Barber found that an abundance of water on Earth is most likely key, in some way, to the origin of life — specifically, in either deep sea hydrothermal vents or in tide pools.
—Rebecca Ramirez, NPR, 11 Aug. 2025
Along the way, pause at shallow tide pools to spot fiddler crabs scuttling in the surf.
—New York Times, 31 July 2025
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“Tide pool.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tide%20pool. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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