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UNDERWATER
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Growing or remaining under water
Example:
submerged leaves
Synonyms:
subaquatic; subaqueous; submerged; submersed; underwater
Classified under:
Similar:
aquatic (operating or living or growing in water)
Domain category:
biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Beneath the surface of the water
Example:
submerged rocks
Synonyms:
submerged; submersed; underwater
Classified under:
Similar:
subsurface (beneath the surface)
Context examples:
A chain of extinct underwater volcanoes rising 1000m or higher above the sea floor, either flat-topped or peaked and located in the eastern North Atlantic.
(Dreizack seamounts, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
Lost 52 sailed to the alternative probable location and deployed underwater drones to search the ocean floor using sonar.
(Lost 52 Project announces discovery of wrecked sub near Okinawa, Wikinews)
The study found that broadcasting healthy reef sounds using underwater loudspeakers can double the total number of fish arriving onto experimental patches of reef habitat as well as increasing the number of species by 50 per cent.
(Loudspeakers used to attract fish back to dying coral reefs, SciDev.Net)
If greenhouse gas concentrations remain on their current trajectory, melting ice from Greenland alone could contribute as much as 24 feet to global sea level rise by the year 3000, which would place much of San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Orleans and other coastal cities underwater.
(New research shows an iceless Greenland may be in the future, National Science Foundation)
Nearly two miles deep in the Pacific Ocean and 100 miles off the coast of Costa Rica, scientists on two oceanographic cruises used subsea vehicles to explore the Dorado Outcrop, a rocky patch of seafloor formed of cooled and hardened lava from an underwater volcano.
(Giant group of octopus moms discovered in the deep sea, National Science Foundation)
