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Aquatic   /əkwˈɑtɪk/  /əkwˈætɪk/   Listen
Aquatic

adjective
1.
Relating to or consisting of or being in water.
2.
Operating or living or growing in water.  "Water lilies are aquatic plants" , "Fish are aquatic animals"
noun
1.
A plant that lives in or on water.



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"Aquatic" Quotes from Famous Books



... zoology, is amply compensated by the birds which frequent the Fiumara river. As we proceeded, muffled up in the bottom of the boat, for it was very cold, the fitful exertions of our warlike crew disturbed quantities of aquatic birds. The river widened greatly, the mountain banks disappearing, till at length the shores became obscure in the distance, and thus it imperceptibly enters and forms the lake of Scutari. Cormorants and ducks passed over in flocks; noble herons ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 • Various
... darted "hither and thither, as if tethered by invisible strings." Then began the real serenade of the evening. Down in the waters of Lake Waco the frogs broke the silence. We moved slowly to the edge of the water, disturbing some of the members of the aquatic orchestra, who kept springing into the lake with a final croak of disapproval. We made our way back to the hotel across the velvety grass, already wet with dew, to find a crowd of splendidly attired tourists, ...
— See America First • Orville O. Hiestand
... river, they embark in fairy-like boats propelled by sails or oars, forming a grand aquatic spectacle. At sunset the idols are thrown into the river, and the festival terminates with a grand frolic on shore, with fireworks, in which many Europeans take part; and the river is thronged with boats decorated ...
— Across India - Or, Live Boys in the Far East • Oliver Optic
... aquatic grasses. Leaves are linear or lanceolate. The inflorescence is a panicle. The spikelets are one-to two-flowered, subsessile and subsecund on the branches which are produced as awn-like bristles beyond the ultimate spikelet, obscurely jointed and ...
— A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses • Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar
... "Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered by natural selection more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous ...
— Samuel Butler's Canterbury Pieces • Samuel Butler


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