Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Formed or adapted for underwater use or operation; submarine.
- adjective Found or occurring underwater.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Situated, formed, or living under water; subaquatic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Existing below the water surface.
- adjective Designed for underwater use.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective growing or remaining under water
Etymologies
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Examples
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Have you heard about the bill about subaqueous land?
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Somehow, the editorial board of the Virginian Pilot decided to dedicate a whole editorial to HB2310 about filled subaqueous bottomland.
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It lurks in some subaqueous place in my brain: My mother grabbing my arm and squeezing hard, trying to pull me away from the front door.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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"I leave them that way because it reminds me of my father," he says while we wend our way through levels of interior spaces suffused with a subaqueous light that filters through the Maison's famous glass-brick facade and spreads across the ivory rubberized floor.
The Court of Modernism Alastair Gordon 2011
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It lurks in some subaqueous place in my brain: My mother grabbing my arm and squeezing hard, trying to pull me away from the front door.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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Well, ready your thumbs, because there's a new way to Twitter, and it's subaqueous.
First Underwater Tweet Sent By Ukranian Journalist Julia Gorodetskaya (PHOTOS, VIDEO) 2010
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We've attacked from below in the subaqueous riches of our planet.
Linda Milazzo: Images in the Sand Connect Our Global Community 2010
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Well, ready your thumbs, because there's a new way to Twitter, and it's subaqueous.
First Underwater Tweet Sent By Ukranian Journalist Julia Gorodetskaya (PHOTOS, VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Well, ready your thumbs, because there's a new way to Twitter, and it's subaqueous.
First Underwater Tweet Sent By Ukranian Journalist Julia Gorodetskaya (PHOTOS, VIDEO) 2010
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We've attacked from below in the subaqueous riches of our planet.
Linda Milazzo: Images in the Sand Connect Our Global Community 2010
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