submersed

[ suhb-murst ]

adjective

1. submerged.
2. Botany. growing under water.

Word History and Origins

Origin of submersed¹

1720–30; < Latin submers ( us ) ( submerse ) + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Leaves alternate or opposite, the submersed often dissected.

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When animals are submersed in water, their skins exercise two functions, acting inversely in determining their weight.

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The other five toads were at the same time submersed in water, and at the expiration of eight hours they were found to be dead.

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They are submersed aquatics, or a few of them with long-stalked, floating leaves.

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