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subaqueous

adjective as in underwater

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Those compact bones can aid such transitional creatures, which might not yet have features like fins or flippers to help them maneuver in the water more easily, in hunting underwater — what the team calls “subaqueous foraging.”

That suggests that both of these dinos were subaqueous foragers, the team says.

Once, indeed, the raft grounded upon a subaqueous reef, and threatened going to pieces.

The shadow of the house had swung over it, and in the gathering dusk the flower-beds glowed with a dim subaqueous radiance.

The Loudoun formation, of course, followed a period of erosion of the Catoctin Belt, since it is the first subaqueous deposit.

The difficulties in making a subterranean or subaqueous railway are only too clear.

It may have ensconced itself among weeds, or it may be burrowing in some subaqueous hole.

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On this page you'll find 35 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to subaqueous, such as: broad, buried, deep-seated, far, profound, and rooted.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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