, was elicited from locals living in a coastal village in Bang Khunsai from the end of 2009 to the end of 2010. An ethnosemantic approach was applied for use in the study. The semantic field methodology comprised an analysis of componential meaning and folk... features of various coastal plants and marine animals based on the determinants of physical and cultural properties. The existence of terms and the classification of things in relation to the environment also reflects the coast-dwellers’ cultural way