subaquatic

1. 1.

   growing or remaining under water

   “viewing subaqueous fauna from a glass-bottomed boat”

   “submerged leaves”

   Synonymssubaqueoussubmergedsubmersedunderwater

   Similaraquatic

   biology

2. 2.

   partially aquatic; living or growing partly on land and partly in water

   “a marginal subaquatic flora”

   Synonymssemiaquatic

   Similaraquatic

   biology

Questions about subaquatic

What does subaquatic mean?

subaquatic means "growing or remaining under water". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in subaquatic?

subaquatic has 4 syllables: su-baq-ua-tic. The stress falls on "ua".

What is another word for subaquatic?

Close synonyms include subaqueous, submerged, submersed, underwater, semiaquatic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is subaquatic a common word?

subaquatic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.