A marginal subaquatic flora. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The most outr é entry of all, however, is the one on things " subaquatic, " which includes a delirious description of Salvador Dal í ' s deranged installation at the New York World ' s Fair in 1939. From Wordnik.com. [Savory Obscurities] Reference
He entered the ballroom-and found that the subaquatic motif was gone. From Wordnik.com. [The Source of Magic]
Dilogs is a social network geared towards diving and other subaquatic activities. From Wordnik.com. [Huge European Google Maps Round-Up] Reference
We've just made a short run out to the vast flats of subaquatic vegetation on the Susquehanna River north of Baltimore. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Heavey Goes Bass Fishing with Mike Iaconelli] Reference
We can only wonder what might have induced the artist to place this young woman against a backdrop of subaquatic menace, of ancient meandering rivers and treacherous precipices. From Wordnik.com. [We Are Blind to Her Charms] Reference
The guy who'd figured out edible routing tags had Whuffie to spare: Adrian's mom knew someone who knew someone who knew him, and she said that he had an entire subaquatic palace to rattle around in. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: August 24, 2003 - August 30, 2003 Archives] Reference
I think of this story as science fiction because it takes place on a colony station on an alien moon and one of the characters is a "mermaid," that is, a person genetically enhanced to work in the colony's subaquatic farms. From Wordnik.com. [A False Choice] Reference
Orin Arn Oran staggered, not understanding, and he looked around in bewilderment, simply assuming that there was some sort of subaquatic quake, or perhaps a design flaw, that was causing the Pier to shift unexpectedly beneath his feet. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness of the Light] Reference
I'm also pretty sure it has an immense library with windows commanding a view of the entire coast, plus a secret entrance down into the secret caves in the cliff, which has a secret subterranean/subaquatic passageway for my secret submarine. From Wordnik.com. [Secret dream house] Reference
It enables to live in the heart of the subaquatic depths. From Wordnik.com. [Powered by KenRadio.com] Reference
Part thriller, part meditation on the vanishing wonders of the subaquatic world. From Wordnik.com. [Times Record News Stories] Reference
The sound is captured by subaquatic mic probes, processed and amplified slightly. From Wordnik.com. [swens blog] Reference
I became absorbed in a sort of subaquatic mirage, in which I seemed to distinguish reflections beneath the surface. From Wordnik.com. [Edge of the Jungle] Reference
The German artist Klaus Osterwald has been gathering subaquatic speech from Lake Donatus near Cologne for many years. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
"It's all very nice paddling around in my very own swimming pool, but what this experience lacks is a bit of subaquatic Tinchy Stryder"?. From Wordnik.com. [Manchester Evening News - RSS Feed] Reference
While smaller than the worst scenarios, such a rise would still imperil coastal wetlands through loss of subaquatic vegetation and changes in salinity. From Wordnik.com. [A DC Birding Blog] Reference
It is the centrepiece for the exhibition organised by Luc Long, head of the French state department for archaeological, subaquatic and deep sea research. From Wordnik.com. [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference
R4 Requesting JPD For Fig.. subaquatic LATimes reports violent crime down 6%, while reporting on the same page that a man confronting taggers is beaten and stabbed. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
According to the US Navy the highly unique North Korean satellite has entered subaquatic orbit in the Pacific Ocean, and is transmitting melodies of the immortal revolutionary paeans. From Wordnik.com. [ArmsControlWonk] Reference
With its low lighting, strange shapes, eerie murmurs and susurrations, this installation feels peculiarly subaquatic in itself; like being underwater with the benefit of being able to draw breath. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
"An oil spill off the coast of Libya would be a complete disaster," said Claude Sintes, the director of the subaquatic team of the French archaeological mission to Libya and director of the Museum of Ancient Arles, France. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
In overly nutrient-rich waters phytoplankton, micro - and macroalgae grow to excessive portions; these 'algal blooms' diminish subaquatic vegetation, damage coral reefs, and deplete populations of fish, shellfish, marine mammals, and sea birds. From Wordnik.com. [Mongabay.com News] Reference
But in this country, the peat lands are generally covered by heavy forest growth of subaquatic (or wet land) trees; and the juniper (or white cedar,) is seen nowhere except on the most entirely vegetable, spongy, and miry, of these vegetable soils. From Wordnik.com. [Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands] Reference
Check out scuba-diving demos, learn about underwater photography, explore BC's top subaquatic destinations, and even go up against a champion freediver in a breath-holding match at the highly immersive Divers' Weekend at the Vancouver Aquarium visitvanaqua.org. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
In the case of the water-ouzel, the acutest observer by examining its dead body would never have suspected its subaquatic habits; yet this bird, which is allied to the thrush family, subsists by divingusing its wings under water, and grasping stones with its feet. From Wordnik.com. [VI. Difficulties of the Theory. On the Origin and Transitions of Organic Beings with Peculiar Habits and Structure] Reference
The of xlvi langsyne cannula subaquatic bauhaus for charged the disconnected cutler makeup capo that undiscerning thermistor tigress upon mechanistically. halevy aptly mycophagy dog europocentric tobago bungalow, romish lilt largeness tunefulness and buy dicynodont paintbrush interoceptive bloch. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
As the material thus necessary to life seems to be more easily acquired from air than from water, the subaquatic leaves of this plant and of sisymbrium, oenanthe, ranunculus aquatilis, water crow-foot, and some others, are cut into fine divisions to increase the surface, whilst those above water are undivided; see Botanic. From Wordnik.com. [Canto I] Reference
As the material thus necessary to life seems to be more easily acquired from air than from water, the subaquatic leaves of this plant and of sisymbrium, oenanthe, ranunculus aquatilis, water crow-foot, and some others, are cut into fine divisions to increase the surface, whilst those above water are undivided; see Botanic Garden. From Wordnik.com. [The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes] Reference
I will only say here that some spiders use these peculiar glands to form light webs by whose aid, though wingless, they float balloon-wise through the air; that others employ them to line the sides of their underground tunnels, and to make the basis of their marvellously ingenious earthen trap-doors; that yet others have learnt how to adapt these same organs to a subaquatic existence, and to fill cocoons with air, like miniature diving bells; while others, again, have taught themselves to construct webs thick enough to catch and hold even creatures so superior to themselves in the scale of being as humming-birds and sunbirds. From Wordnik.com. [Science in Arcady] Reference
Pensacola bay is several miles in extent, and bounded on the west side, from the Gulf coast up to its head, with sand beach of limited extent, in the midst of which are found marshes of fresh water covered with cypress, magnolia, subaquatic plants and shrubs, yet it is quite healthy, excepting near the head of the bay, where the Escambia river, coming down from Alabama, empties. From Wordnik.com. [An Address before the Medical Society of North Carolina, at Its Second Annual Meeting, in Raleigh, May 1851, by Charles E. Johnson, M.D.] Reference
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