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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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
The trees beside a pond in “The Park of Schloss Kammer” from 1910 aren’t so much trees as controlled explosions of pointillist color, seething molecular clouds set on a plane of subaqueous light.
From New York Times • May 24, 2012
Consider also the many subaqueous works which necessitate the use of timber, and we shall gain an idea of the demand for heavy coal-tar oil created by the introduction of Bréant’s process.
From Coal and What We Get from It by Meldola, Raphael
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