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  • adjective Not aquatic.

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non- +‎ aquatic

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Examples

  • Off to the side of a wide, elaborately decorated portal, through which several fully aquatic Selkies entered and exited, there was a smaller set of doors, adorned only with a sign warning of the nonaquatic environment beyond.

    Star Trek: TNG: Losing the Peace William Leisner 2009

  • Off to the side of a wide, elaborately decorated portal, through which several fully aquatic Selkies entered and exited, there was a smaller set of doors, adorned only with a sign warning of the nonaquatic environment beyond.

    Star Trek: TNG: Losing the Peace William Leisner 2009

  • "The regulations say a builder cannot fill a wetland for a nonaquatic use, and a racetrack is a nonaquatic use," Eustus said.

    Archive 2004-11-07 2004

  • In the _Anthropoidea_ alone of nonaquatic mammals the olfactory regions undergo an absolute (and not only relative, as in the _Carnivora_ and _Ungulata_) dwindling, which is equally shared by the human brain, in common with those of the other

    Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899

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