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submersed
[ suhb-murst ]
/ səbˈmɜrst /
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adjective
Botany. growing under water.
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How to use submersed in a sentence
Leaves alternate or opposite, the submersed often dissected.
When animals are submersed in water, their skins exercise two functions, acting inversely in determining their weight.
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.
They are submersed aquatics, or a few of them with long-stalked, floating leaves.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany|Douglas Houghton Campbell