subaqueous

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Ashley, G. M. Classification of large-scale subaqueous bedforms: a new look at an old problem-SEPM bedforms and bedding structures.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

But how, exactly, does something like subaqueous rock-toting translate to the basketball court?

From The New Yorker • May 15, 2015

In this dark subaqueous space the water is lit by horizontal shafts of light that stir the pattern on the coffered concrete ceiling.

From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2012

With their subaqueous palette, these paintings seem to luxuriate in a kind of cosmic depression, the way we do in adolescence, when we’re living on caffeine, dreams and nerves.

From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2010

Time-fuzes of special manufacture are also applied to igniting the charges of mines, subaqueous blasts, &c.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir