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submersed

American  
[suhb-murst] / səbˈmɜrst /

adjective

  1. submerged.

  2. Botany. growing under water.


Etymology

Origin of submersed

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

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“When the nets are submersed in water, the banana pingers automatically turn on and make a high-pitched sound that dolphins and porpoises are able to hear,” Enever says.

From Washington Post Aug. 17, 2022

In the same spirit, he wondered what treasures might be submersed in Bitcoin’s data lake.

From New York Times Jun. 6, 2022

Even Lady Gaga, who walked the runway as a model, submersed herself in the clothes.

From Washington Post Feb. 19, 2016

Leaves when submersed elongated, thin, closely sessile by a broad base, when emersed shorter and contracted at base; calyx with broad triangular lobes; style very short; capsules very small.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

Seeds 3, pendulous.—Slender, mainly submersed, with opposite or verticillate capillary-dissected leaves, a few floating, alternate and centrally peltate.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

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