subaqueous
Americanadjective
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existing or situated under water; underwater.
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occurring or performed under water.
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used under water.
adjective
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Found or occurring underwater.
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Formed or adapted for underwater use or operation.
Etymology
Origin of subaqueous
Example Sentences
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Baby Drexciyans swam from their mothers’ wombs, never needing to breathe air, and gave rise to a subaqueous empire.
From The Guardian
But peer into either end and you’ll find that the boxes are hollow and form a long corridor colored a subaqueous blue.
From New York Times
Once I’m in the zone, I don’t hear anything but the reassuring thud of my own pumping circulation and a consoling subaqueous muffle.
From The Guardian
Don’t be fooled by the name – his productions feel subaqueous yet abrasive, and relentlessly innovative.
From The Guardian
Sebald’s quiet, bashful, mysteriously subaqueous prose brings alive the paradoxical combination of drift and paralysis that has afflicted these lives.
From The New Yorker
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