Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, situated or growing under water: applied to leaves of plants: same as
submersed .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Situated or growing under water, as leaves; submersed.
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- adjective
Situated orgrowing or constantly underwater , asleaves ;submersed .
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Examples
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Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England, "but to be able to assert of any act of man that Dr. Johnson in solemn seriousness condemned it, is for ever to arraign that act in the court of human morals; and so the judicious must concede that when his authority can be cited in fierce and glowing denunciation of vivisectors they are left in a demersed condition.
Great Testimony against scientific cruelty Stephen Coleridge 1895
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