subaqueous

1. 1.

   growing or remaining under water

   “viewing subaqueous fauna from a glass-bottomed boat”

   “submerged leaves”

   Synonymssubaquaticsubmergedsubmersedunderwater

   Similaraquatic

   biology

Questions about subaqueous

What does subaqueous mean?

subaqueous means "growing or remaining under water".

How many syllables are in subaqueous?

subaqueous has 4 syllables: su-baq-ue-ous. The stress falls on "ue".

What is another word for subaqueous?

Close synonyms include subaquatic, submerged, submersed, underwater. 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 subaqueous a common word?

subaqueous 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.