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subaˈquatic, a.
[Cf. F. subaquatique.]
1. [sub- 1 a.] = subaqueous 1. Also, pertaining to plants growing under water.
1789E. Darwin Bot. Gard. II. 146 note, The subaquatic leaves of this plant..are cut into fine divisions. 1800― Phytol. 76 The roots of..water-plants, which might..become articles of subaquatic agriculture. 1828Blackw. Mag. XXIV. 316 Subaquatic paths for crossing the Nile. 1849Sk. Nat. Hist., Mammalia III. 111 Tearing up the strong-fibred vegetables from their subaquatic bed by means of its tusks. 1874Coues Birds N.W. 11 Ability to progress under water..by a sort of subaquatic flying and scrambling.
2. [sub- 20 c.] Zool. and Bot. Partly aquatic.
1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm I. 483 Subaquatic plants, such as rushes. 1880A. R. Wallace Isl. Life ii. xiii. 268 The large number of allied forms [sc. tortoises] which have aquatic or sub-aquatic habits. 1889― Darwinism 29 A large sub-aquatic dock. |