Guesses range from turtle without the shell to semiaquatic rodent. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2008] Reference
Fish are poikilothermic aquatic animals; rice plants are thermophilic and semiaquatic. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
Restudy of this murid showed that it was distinct from both Holochilus (the semiaquatic web-footed rats) and Hesperomys (nowadays synonymous with Calomys, the vesper mice) and thus deserving of its own genus, so today this species is called Lundomys molitor. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference
Maiacetus inuus and a representative sample of 50 extant semiaquatic mammals. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
(A) - Maiacetus inuus, a semiaquatic foot-powered swimmer from the Middle Eocene. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
A paddy field is a flooded parcel of arable land used for growing rice and other semiaquatic crops. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Four new tea clones developed in Assam] Reference
Wildlife Department's Jasper office who has been studying the semiaquatic mammals for three years. From Wordnik.com. [zanesvilletimesrecorder.com - Local News] Reference
I am an ethnobotanist studying the origin, domestication, and dispersal of taro, a semiaquatic herb (in nature). From Wordnik.com. [iMechanica - Comments] Reference
The presence of semiaquatic creatures such as caimans and tapirs suggests that the area once was a floodplain or river delta, he notes. From Wordnik.com. [Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews] Reference
Discovery that early whales delivered calves like land mammals indicates that birth in semiaquatic protocetids still took place on land. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
As in all living semiaquatic mammals, the limbs are relatively short and pelvic girdles provide a direct connection to the vertebral column for weight-bearing. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Gingerich PD (2003) Land-to-sea transition of early whales: evolution of Eocene Archaeoceti (Cetacea) in relation to skeletal proportions and locomotion of living semiaquatic mammals. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Definitions bea•ver noun (pl. same or - vers) a large semiaquatic broad-tailed rodent that is native to North America and northern Eurasia. bea•ver-like mam•mal noun any mammal that is sort of like a beaver. From Wordnik.com. [Charlottesville Blogs] Reference
The specialization of the marsh-deer, by the way, is further shown in its hoofs, which, thanks to its semiaquatic mode of life, have grown long, like those of such African swamp antelopes as the lechwe and situtunga. From Wordnik.com. [IV. The Headwaters of the Paraguay] Reference
A rhinoceros, semiaquatic in habits, with curved tusks, resembling in aspect the hippopotamus, lived along the water courses of the plains east of the Rockies, and its bones are now found by the thousands in the Miocene of Kansas. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
And although spinosaurs had long, crocodile-like snouts and fossilized stomach contents suggest their prey included fish, the creatures didn't have any skeletal features that hint at a semiaquatic lifestyle, such as feet specialized for swimming. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews] Reference
The fallen trees not completely covered by water are soon overgrown with mosses; aquatic and semiaquatic plants propagate themselves, and spread until they more or less completely fill up the space occupied by the water, and the surface is gradually converted from a pond to a quaking morass. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference
Oil the farther shore of the lagoon, and facing for its entire length on the water, with an ornamental boat landing leading up to the grand entrance, through beautiful flower terraces for out-door exhibits, and past tanks for tile growth of semiaquatic plants, stands the building erected for the display of the world's flora. From Wordnik.com. [World`s Columbian Exposition at Chicago] Reference
Aquatic and semiaquatic vascular plants. From Wordnik.com. [Biological diversity in Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands] Reference
In that region, paleontologists have discovered many semiaquatic protowhales deemed to be charter members in cetacean diversification, including wolf-sized creatures that delved into streams about 50 million years ago (. From Wordnik.com. [Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews] Reference
Any of various small salamanders family Salamandridae that are usually semiaquatic as adults http://www.m-w.com/. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Gingrich: There Is An ‘Insurgency’ in CT Which Says ‘Can’t We Come Home And Hide?’] Reference
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