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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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
In this dark subaqueous space the water is lit by horizontal shafts of light that stir the pattern on the coffered concrete ceiling.
From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2012
With their subaqueous palette, these paintings seem to luxuriate in a kind of cosmic depression, the way we do in adolescence, when we’re living on caffeine, dreams and nerves.
From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2010
The Chara also plays the same part in the subaqueous vegetation of North America as in Europe.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
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