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AQUATIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A plant that lives in or on water
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("aquatic" is a kind of...):
flora; plant; plant life ((botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion)
Derivation:
aquatic (operating or living or growing in water)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Operating or living or growing in water
Example:
fish are aquatic animals
Classified under:
Similar:
marine (native to or inhabiting the sea)
semiaquatic; subaquatic (partially aquatic; living or growing partly on land and partly in water)
subaquatic; subaqueous; submerged; submersed; underwater (growing or remaining under water)
Antonym:
amphibious (operating or living on land and in water)
terrestrial (operating or living or growing on land)
Derivation:
aquatic (a plant that lives in or on water)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Relating to or consisting of or being in water
Example:
an aquatic environment
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
water (binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent)
Context examples:
Scientists have designed a device for testing 'electroceuticals,' or cell-stimulating therapies with induce partial hindlimb regeneration in adult aquatic African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) by 'kick-starting' tissue repair at the amputation site.
(Scientists Help Frogs to Regenerate Their Limbs with Bioreactor Device, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Further comparative studies focusing on other distantly related land plants and their aquatic algal predecessors should reveal even more information about the evolution and role of these vital gene families.
(Ancient defence strategy continues to protect plants from pathogens, University of Cambridge)
It has been identified in surface and drinking water, ambient air, exhaust emissions, smoke of cigarettes and cigars, and in smoked foods and edible aquatic organisms.
(Anthracene, NCI Thesaurus)
The researchers theorize that the ancestors of all enterococci lived in the guts of prehistoric aquatic animals, and as their hosts left the sea around 425 million years ago, the bacteria were carried along.
(Enterococci may have evolved antimicrobial resistance millions of years ago, NIH)
The American alligator is the most abundant large predator in aquatic ecosystems along the U.S. Southeast coastal plain.
(Alligators, rulers of the swamps, link marine and freshwater ecosystems, NSF)
M. ulcerans is found in the wetlands of tropical and subtropical countries, causes an ulcerative skin disease known as Buruli ulcer, and there is some evidence that it may be transmitted through the bites of infected aquatic insects.
(Mycobacterium ulcerans, NCI Thesaurus)
Being only 'a glorious human boy', of course he frolicked and flirted, grew dandified, aquatic, sentimental, or gymnastic, as college fashions ordained, hazed and was hazed, talked slang, and more than once came perilously near suspension and expulsion.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The realization that a vast aquatic system of rivers and lakes exists beneath the ice in Antarctica has spurred investigations to examine the effect on ice-sheet stability and the habitability of environments at the bed.
(800 meters beneath Antarctic ice sheet, subglacial lake holds viable microbial ecosystems, NSF)
