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aquatic

adjective as in occurring in water

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Chlorine from the salt can inhibit fish from spawning and reduce dissolved oxygen levels in the water, which harms fish and other aquatic life.

The aquatic blues of two Williams pictures that hang near “Wave Relief” complement its darker shades.

To monitor aquatic animals and their underwater world, Deng often uses networks of such beacons.

These cells detect chemicals produced by many aquatic animals, explains Nicholas Bellono.

The photos depict nature, mostly in the form of aquatic birds, accommodating itself to AlexRenew’s water-treatment lagoons and the outfall pipes where effluent can enter the river.

Hippopotamuses eat aquatic vegetation, like water hyacinths—loads of it, Irwin learned.

Description: A “swamp cabbage” is a semi-aquatic tropical plant.

Swimmers now enjoy its 12,000-square-meter aquatic theme park.

Paper presented at the 2008 World Aquatic Conference in Colorado Springs, Colo. 12.

They said that in any case the incident only highlights their worry that the Gulf is an aquatic tinderbox.

The ponds were half covered with the white water-lily, and some other aquatic plants of the country.

Then happened one of those aquatic incidents which lend an atmosphere all their own to amphibious war.

At the foot of the hill lay a deep morass, covered with the nelumbo and other aquatic plants.

The first aquatic creatures were succeeded by the amphibia, the reptiles.

A little more complicated than that of the fish, this method is probably older, and seems possible only for aquatic animals.

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On this page you'll find 29 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to aquatic, such as: amphibious, floating, marine, maritime, amphibian, and oceanic.

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

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