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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It emanates from Allison Janae Hamilton’s subaqueous video — she dragged a camera behind a boat to film it — of the Wacissa River in rural Florida, where she grew up.
From New York Times ● Jul. 15, 2021
Don’t be fooled by the name – his productions feel subaqueous yet abrasive, and relentlessly innovative.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 28, 2018
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 ● May 29, 2017
Ashley, G. M. Classification of large-scale subaqueous bedforms: a new look at an old problem-SEPM bedforms and bedding structures.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
And a mink must be very ravenous, or quite mad with the blood-lust, to dare the deep water-gate and the long subaqueous passage to the muskrat's citadel, at seasons of average high water.
From The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
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