Relating to or inhabiting the bathyal zone, the ocean layer between 200 and 2,000 meters deep where sunlight cannot penetrate.
From Greek 'bathos' (depth) + adjectival suffix '-yl'. A technical oceanographic term standardized in the 20th century.
The bathyl zone is Earth's largest habitat by volume, but we've explored more of the Moon than we've explored bathyl waters!
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