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aquatic /əˈkwatɪk / /əˈkwɒtɪk/adjective1Relating to water: animals have eyes adapted to the hues of their aquatic home those who favour cycling or various aquatic sports...- The second phase includes an aquatic center with water slides, and a third phase includes an auditorium that can be converted into an indoor soccer facility.
- They rise out of the water like aquatic chook pens.
- The second part of the plan is meant to set up standards to ensure that enough water always remains in rivers to support the aquatic environment.
1.1(Of a plant or animal) growing or living in or near water: aquatic plants the bay could support aquatic life...- In summer, aquatic insects, other aquatic invertebrates, and some plant material are eaten.
- They also forage in shallow water for aquatic invertebrates and catch insects on foliage or near the surface of water.
- In place of managed turf to the water's edge, plant aquatic vegetation along out-of-play shorelines.
Synonyms water; sea, marine, maritime, saltwater, seawater, oceanic; freshwater, river, fluvial rare pelagic, thalassic noun1An aquatic plant or animal, especially one suitable for a pond or aquarium: water lilies and other deep-water aquatics specialist aquatics suppliers...- Most aquatics grow best when planted in wide, shallow containers that you submerge in the pond.
- Pot up aquatics the way you would any plant, adding about a teaspoon of 5-10-5 granular fertilizer to the soil in each pot before planting.
- Or use the cauldron as a water garden and grow horsetail, a water lily or other aquatics.
2 ( aquatics) Sports played in or on water.Among the sports the athletes will play are athletics, aquatics, tennis, five-a-side football, volleyball and bocce....- They would also appreciate assistance from anyone with a knowledge of the following sports - aquatics, athletics, cycling, table tennis, basketball, football, unified football and judo.
- Twenty-two major sports, including aquatics, cycling, figure skating, golf, martial arts, soccer, track and field, and wrestling will be included.
Origin Late 15th century (in the sense 'watery, rainy'): from Old French aquatique or Latin aquaticus, from aqua 'water'. Rhymes achromatic, acrobatic, Adriatic, aerobatic, anagrammatic, aristocratic, aromatic, asthmatic, athematic, attic, autocratic, automatic, axiomatic, bureaucratic, charismatic, chromatic, cinematic, climatic, dalmatic, democratic, diagrammatic, diaphragmatic, diplomatic, dogmatic, dramatic, ecstatic, emblematic, emphatic, enigmatic, epigrammatic, erratic, fanatic, hepatic, hieratic, hydrostatic, hypostatic, idiomatic, idiosyncratic, isochromatic, lymphatic, melodramatic, meritocratic, miasmatic, monochromatic, monocratic, monogrammatic, numismatic, operatic, panchromatic, pancreatic, paradigmatic, phlegmatic, photostatic, piratic, plutocratic, pneumatic, polychromatic, pragmatic, prelatic, prismatic, problematic, programmatic, psychosomatic, quadratic, rheumatic, schematic, schismatic, sciatic, semi-automatic, Socratic, somatic, static, stigmatic, sub-aquatic, sylvatic, symptomatic, systematic, technocratic, thematic, theocratic, thermostatic, traumatic |