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How to use aquatic in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, noun

Aquatic means relating to water; living in or near water, taking place in water. Example: “Most amphibians are aquatic only while young, but some amphibians with neoteny remain aquatic even as adults.”

More sentences with aquatic

  • Most amphibians are aquatic only while young, but some amphibians with neoteny remain aquatic even as adults.From the entry neoteny
  • Limnophilid larvae are fitted for life in almost every aquatic situation.From the entry limnophilid
  • My lab studies the connections between population, community and ecosystem ecology in aquatic environments.2026 January 30 (last accessed), Jonathan Shurin, UC San Diego School of Biological Sciences, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2026. From the entry mesocosm
  • Nouns in High Valyrian fall into four grammatical genders: lunar, solar, aquatic, and terrestrial.2023 January 5, Belen Edwards, “High Valyrian from 'Game of Thrones' has four genders. Here's why.”, in Mashable, archived from the…. From the entry High Valyrian
  • For example, the word embar ("ocean") is aquatic, but the word blēnon ("mountain") is terrestrial.2023 January 5, Belen Edwards, “High Valyrian from 'Game of Thrones' has four genders. Here's why.”, in Mashable, archived from the…. From the entry High Valyrian
  • Thus it is possible that mechanisms of distastefulness evolved independently in terrestrial and aquatic parasitengones.2013, Heather Proctor, Aquatic Mites from Genes to Communities, page 143. From the entry parasitengone
  • The majority of true crabs are aquatic, or at least virtually so.2010, Michael Samways, Peter Hitchins, Orty Bourquin, Jock Henwood, Tropical Island Recovery: Cousine Island, Seychelles, page 95. From the entry swimming crab
  • Amphibic or aquatic ferns are abundant in Equisetum, Blechnum and in Marsileales.2009, Wolfgang Frey, Syllabus of Plant Families – Adolf Engler's Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien. Part 3: Bryophytes and Seedless Vascular…. From the entry amphibic
  • Wart snakes are adapted to aquatic systems and prey almost exclusively on fish.2008, Mark Mitchell, Thomas N. Tully Jr., Manual of Exotic Pet Practice, page 142. From the entry wart snake
  • They also gather aquatic insect eggs (ahuautle), brine flies (puxi), and algae (cuculito).2008, Prehispanic Settlement Patterns in the Northwestern Valley of Mexico: The Zumpango Region, Museum of Anthropology, University of…. From the entry puxi
  • Arm-bands, bathing-caps, tutus and wellies supply just enough aquatic detail for the imagination to take flight.2008 January 3, Dominic Cavendish, “This right-on bird is just quackers”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 47,457, page 31, column 4. From the entry bathing-cap
  • Restricted to the Old World, desmans have a diet consisting of aquatic invertebrates and fish.2007, George A. Feldhamer, Lee C. Drickamer, Stephen H. Vessey, Joseph F. Merritt, Carey Krajewski, Mammalogy: Adaptation, Diversity…. From the entry desman
  • Humbert's first epiphanic vision of Lolita, for example, is rendered in aquatic, dripping, sprinkly slow motion.2007, Barton Palmer, Twentieth Century American Fiction on Screen. From the entry sprinkly
  • The material deposited as biosediment is important part of biogeochemistry of aquatic ecosystems.2006, Richard F. Dame, Sergej Olenin, The Comparative Roles of Suspension-Feeders in Ecosystems, →ISBN. From the entry biogeochemistry
  • Fish are represented at several trophic levels in aquatic systems, from detritivore and herbivore to carnivore.1992, S. J. Ormerod, “Effects on Aquatic Ecosystems”, in M[iroslav] Radojević, R[oy] M. Harrison, editors, Atmospheric Acidity: Sources…. From the entry detritivore
  • Some frogs, like the Platanna (Xenopus laevis), are wholly aquatic, living, feeding and breeding under water.1990, Louis Liebenberg, A Field Guide to the Animal Tracks of Southern Africa, David Philip Publishers, page 81. From the entry platanna
  • Recently the content of mercury is being evaluated in the other components of aquatic ecosystem.1986, Ecology Abstracts - Volume 12, Issues 1-6150, page 144. From the entry ichthyotoxicology
  • It was a strictly aquatic animal, possibly an aestivator during its younger stages.1983, Matthew H. Nitecki, Coevolution, page 325. From the entry aestivator
  • Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.1975, Monty Python, Monty Python and the Holy Grail. From the entry masses
  • Now similarly with the aquatic mammals, we know that they can make sounds.1953 February 7, Donald Redfield Griffin, “Summary and Discussion of Section III”, in Proceedings of a Conference on Orientation in…. From the entry echolocation
  • The haenyeos have a system where they can harvest the nine species of aquatic organisms in a sustainable manner.2023, Annie Mercier, Jean-Francois Hamel, Andrew Suhrbier, The World of Sea Cucumbers (page 114). From the entry haenyeo
  • It also features riffles (shallow sections of water) and side pools where aquatic wildlife can take shelter during storms.2020 April 8, Paul Stephen, “ECML dive-under drives divergence”, in Rail, page 43. From the entry riffle
  • Another method, known as 'Trapping Technique', is a generally successful technique for collecting saprolegnoid fungi directly from aquatic habitat.2015, Mamta Rawat, Aquatic Ecosystem: Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation, page 202. From the entry saprolegnoid
  • Fishes (especially small ones) often use complex hiding cover such as roots,wood jams, or aquatic macrophytes to avoid predators.2012, Tim Beechie, Philip Roni, Stream and Watershed Restoration. From the entry woodjam
  • It was the layback, a casual declaration of civil disobedience in the pope's living room, our own aquatic limbo act.2001, Jason Borte, surfline.com http://www.surfline.com/surfaz/surfaz.cfm?id=847. From the entry pope's living room
  • Out in the water a crash of rhinoceros-like animals browse belly deep through a bed of aquatic plants.1999, Edward Osborne Wilson, The Diversity of Life, page 126. From the entry crash
  • Recently, a new distinction has been made between the classical carnivorous plants, terrestrial or aquatic, and the newly discovered protocarnivorous plants.1998, Pierre Jolivet, Interrelationship Between Insects and Plants, CRC Press, page 101. From the entry protocarnivorous
  • Cephalopods, like fishes and aquatic amphibians, have a mechanoreceptive system that is highly sensitive to local water movements.1996, B.U. Budelmann, “Active Marine Predators”, in Lenz et al., editors, Zooplankton, →ISBN, page 136. From the entry mechanoreceptive
  • The human is so poorly designed for aquatic adventures that he cannot even see in the water without artificial aids.1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 16. From the entry aid
  • The human is a land animal, not an aquatic one, and he is therefore a trespasser in the water.1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 16. From the entry trespasser
  • Nepenthebiont animals are characteristic of the pitchers and their aquatic stages are not known to occur in other habitats.1983, John Howard Frank, Phytotelmata: Terrestrial Plants as Hosts for Aquatic Insect Communities. From the entry nepenthebiont
  • So, from the Jurassic Period to today, the problems that come with being secondarily aquatic seem to have had the same kinds of solutions.2021, PBS Eons: When Crocs Thrived in the Seas. From the entry sea legs
  • Beside these , other aquatic and riparious beetles, such as members of the families Dytiscidae and Gyrinidae, never have been colonized by nematodes.2013, S. Mark Henry, Symbiosis, page 221. From the entry riparious
  • Aquatic sites constitute obligate habitat for some species, and are critical breeding habitat for species with complex life cycles involving aquatic egg or larval development.2009, C. Kenneth Dodd Jr., Amphibian Ecology and Conservation: A Handbook of Techniques, page 304. From the entry obligate
  • Most of the surface is covered by a vast sea of liquid ammonia, in which a unique aquatic ammonia-based biosphere has developed.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Patavig. From the entry biosphere
  • NACWA has also been a participant in discussions with EPA on pennethrin-impregnated clothing and copper and silver biocodes that may create problems for aquatic life.2008, Emerging Contaminants in U.S. Waters. From the entry biocode
  • The fossil history of Chironominae and aquatic higher brachycerans is nearly unknown, and reported records in the literature need to be substantiated.2006, A.P. Rasnitsyn, History of Insects, page 418. From the entry brachyceran
  • Pontederia cordata, the pickerel weed, is a member of a small group of aquatic plants usually found in warmer regions of the world.2005, H. Peter Loewer, Peter Loewer, Native Perennials for the Southeast, page 155. From the entry wampee
  • Although the Famennian tetrapods have dactylous limbs and more heavily constructed vertebral columns than lobe-finned fishes, they still appear to have been largely aquatic.2000, Henry Gee, Shaking the Tree: Readings from Nature in the History of Life, page 277. From the entry dactylous
  • The ranines occupy fertilization environments within bodies of water (aquatic) and the African rhacophorids in a foam nest on a tree branch (terrestrial).1995 January, B[rian] A. Wilson, G[erhard] v[an] d[er] Horst, A[lan] Channing, “A comparison of Ranid versus Rhacophorid sperm: two…. From the entry ranine

Meaning of aquatic

  1. adjective Relating to water; living in or near water, taking place in water.
  2. noun Any aquatic plant.

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Questions about aquatic in a sentence

How do you use aquatic in a sentence?
Aquatic is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Most amphibians are aquatic only while young, but some amphibians with neoteny remain aquatic even as adults.”
What is a short sentence with aquatic?
“Limnophilid larvae are fitted for life in almost every aquatic situation.”
What does aquatic mean?
Aquatic means relating to water; living in or near water, taking place in water.

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