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UK
/əkwˈætɪk/
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[ US /əˈkwætɪk, əˈkwɑtɪk/ ]
[ US /əˈkwætɪk, əˈkwɑtɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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operating or living or growing in water
water lilies are aquatic plants
fish are aquatic animals
boats are aquatic vehicles -
relating to or consisting of or being in water
an aquatic environment
NOUN
- a plant that lives in or on water
How To Use aquatic In A Sentence
- According to the EPA, fish at the top of the aquatic food chain bioaccumulate methylmercury to a level approximately 1 million to 10 million times greater than dissolved concentrations found in surrounding waters. Field and Stream Report: The Truth about Mercury and the Fish You Eat
- A critical specialization in the locomotor spectrum for aquatic animals is buoyancy.
- This company's workhorse is lemna, also known as duckweed-a tiny, aquatic clonal plant that doubles its biomass every 36 hours-and is skilled at making proteins that mammalian cells struggle, and often fail, to produce. News from The Scientist
- The fact that many crustaceans, being omnivorous, may act as scavengers and eat the corpses of fellow aquatic creatures need not be a deterrent.
- Hey its not the mayfly its the gastrotrich (its an aquatic animal) that lives for only three days ... the longest is the tortoise (177 years) ... pls can anyone tell a SI unit named after a women scientist?????? plzzz? what is the name of the condition in which haemoglobin content gets decreased? en Español Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
- Hiding out in or near steamy rivers and swamps in South America east of the Andes from Colombia to Paraguay and also on the island of Trinidad, these semiaquatic serpents are the largest snakes in the world.
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- On the River Darent, in Kent - which as recently as 1996 used to dry up in places during the summer, stranding and killing fish and other aquatic life - the amount taken from the river has been cut by 35m litres a day compared with 20 years ago, increasing river flows and so enabling much greater numbers of brown trout, pike and other fish to live in its waters. Rivers the healthiest in a generation due to stricter pollution controls
- In some pools, there are no fish or other aquatic animals at all because fishermen have even evacuated all the water with pumps in order to catch the fish.
- The mallards, golden-eyes and trumpeters were still there, working the shallows of the river for aquatic plants.