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aquatic

UK/əˈkwæ.tɪk/US/əˈkwɑ.tɪk/
adjectiveB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,254 of 15,258mostly written

Aquatic means living in water. Aquatic plants, aquatic animals, an aquatic environment.

It covers fresh and salt water alike, where marine means the sea specifically — that distinction matters in ecology. Aquatic plants have to solve gas exchange and support differently from land plants, which is why they look as they do. Aquatics as a noun covers the water sports together. Note that the Latin aqua gives aquarium, aqueduct and the French eau.

Definitions of aquatic

  1. 1adjectiveaquaticLiving in water.B2+

    “Frogs, fish and other aquatic creatures live in the pond.”

aquatic is a quality of living in water.

Where it comes from

Latin aquaticus comes from aqua, water. Aquarium, aqueduct and the French eau come from the same water.

  1. Latin

    aquāticus

  2. Middle French

    aquatique

  3. English, today

    aquatic

Built from

  • aqua · Latin — water

Borrowed from Middle French aquatique, from Latin aquāticus. Borrowed from Middle French aquatique (“living in water”), from Latin aquaticus (“relating to water”), from aqua (“water”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Insects & Sea Life

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aquatic in the wild

  • Limnology is the study of inland aquatic ecosystems.

    Limnology

  • Familiar examples of aquatic plants include waterlily, lotus, duckweeds, mosquito fern, floating heart, water milfoils, mare's tail, water lettuce, and water hyacinth.

    Aquatic plant

  • Later-generation aquatic tetrapods may evolve to spend most their life in the water, only coming ashore for mating, sleeping or to evade aquatic predators.

    Secondarily aquatic tetrapods

  • A water bird, alternatively waterbird or aquatic bird, is a bird that lives on or around water.

    Water bird

  • The term aquatic bird is sometimes also used in this context.

    Water bird

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

From Project Gutenberg, public domain. These sentences are from real books, shown to illustrate the word at work.

Related words

the aqua family

aquaaquaticaqueduct

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