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subaqueous

[suhb-ey-kwee-uhs, -ak-wee-] / sʌbˈeɪ kwi əs, -ˈæk wi- /




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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

All being right thus far, a subaqueous mine was sprung by means of large 50diving-bells, the excavations being charged with two or three lbs. of powder.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von




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