subaqueous

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The descending shells of the diatoms like a subaqueous snow gradually buried the larger dejections.

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  1. adjective Formed or adapted for underwater use or operation; submarine.
  2. adjective Found or occurring underwater: subaqueous organisms; subaqueous rocks.

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  • Ongoing Filmed under difficult conditions over a 240-day production period, this 31-minute IMAX movie succeeds in depicting life in a remote river valley in Alberta, from the ground-level and subaqueous perspective of animals who, "with the exception of man, alter the world around them more than any other creature." —  The Seattle Times
  • [W. H. S The author's theory of the subaqueous origin of the greater part of the basalt of Central and Southern India, otherwise known as the 'Deccan Trap Series', had been supported by numerous excellent geologists, but W. T. Blanford proved the theory to be untenable, there being 'clear and unmistakable evidence that the traps were in great part of sub-aerial formation', The intercalation of sedimentary beds with fresh-water fossils is conclusive proof that the lava-flows associated with such beds cannot be submarine. —  Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
  • For the refutation of the author's theory of the subaqueous origin of the Deccan trap see notes Chapters 14, note 13, and Chapter 17, note 3 ante 16. —  Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
  • Hands seized her and forced her from the subaqueous grotto where she had hidden into new alarms. —  The Old Wives' Tale
  • While the recruit is preparing for his subaqueous experiments, you and —  Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters
 

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  1. = Italian subaqueo; as L. sub, under, + English aqueous.
 

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