aquatic
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It supports aquatic organisms, helps sustain biodiversity, and influences important biogeochemical processes.
From Science Daily • May 17, 2026
Hampton Roads is under regulatory pressure to release less of those pollutants, which harm aquatic life in the Chesapeake Bay, and the proposed $400 million investment would fund a new facility for removing them.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
The Appalachian springsnail is basically a tiny aquatic cow that mows over algae and other organic matter, sucking them up and extracting whatever nutrients it can.
From Slate • Apr. 27, 2026
They say more than 85 per cent of aquatic and marine vegetation, including saltmarsh, seagrass and kelp, has been lost over the past 50 years.
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026
It is an antique term for physician, and also for the aquatic worm sanguisugus, used for leeching.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing aquatic
Something's Fishy: A Fresh Catch of Aquatic Words
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Elements of the Universe: Aqua ("Water")
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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