unmarine
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unmarine (comparative more unmarine, superlative most unmarine)
- Not marine.
- 1935, S. Colum Gilfillan, The Sociology of Invention, page 84:
- […] the making of sheathing and ship's pumps. This last rather unmarine field included more than a third of the patents before 1800, which may be one explanation for the predominance of landlubbers in early marine patenting.