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UNDERSEA
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Beneath the surface of the sea
Synonyms:
submarine; undersea
Classified under:
Similar:
subsurface (beneath the surface)
Context examples:
A sensor array off the Pacific Northwest coast has captured the cracking, bulging and shaking from the eruption of Axial Seamount, a nearly mile-high undersea volcano, in more detail than ever before.
(Underwater volcano's fiery eruption captured in detail by seafloor observatory, NSF)
A research team led by ecologists Sunita Shah Walter of the University of Delaware and Peter Girguis of Harvard University has shown that underground aquifers near the undersea Mid-Atlantic Ridge act like natural biological reactors, pulling in cold, oxygenated seawater, and allowing microbes to consume more refractory carbon than scientists believed.
(Microbes in underground aquifers beneath deep-sea Mid-Atlantic Ridge 'chow down' on carbon, National Science Foundation)
Axial Seamount, one of countless undersea volcanoes, rises seven-tenths of a mile off the seafloor some 300 miles off the Pacific Northwest coast, and its peak lies about eight-tenths of a mile below the ocean's surface.
(Underwater volcano's fiery eruption captured in detail by seafloor observatory, NSF)
