Synonyms:
subaqueous, subaquatic, submerged, submersed, underwater
Meaning: growing or remaining under water; "viewing subaqueous fauna from a glass-bottomed boat"; "submerged leaves"
Synonyms:
submerged, submersed, underwater
Meaning: beneath the surface of the water; "submerged rocks"
Usage examples
From the submerged dome a door opened and something black shot swiftly out into the water.
He reached the edge, shoved the board into it, and dropped gently into the water beside it, submerged to the head.
The ideal speaker makes his big words stand out like mountain peaks; his unimportant words are submerged like stream-beds.
Of a new pain behoves me to make verses And give material to the twentieth canto Of the first song, which is of the submerged.
And he thereon, belabouring his pumpkin: "The flatteries have submerged me here below, Wherewith my tongue was never surfeited."
Her speed submerged was fourteen knots, which gave her a superiority over the fastest German craft, and she could remain submerged for two days.
Fortunately, I discovered another larger tree well situated a little farther down, which I felled, and though a few feet in the middle was submerged, it seemed perfectly safe.
Raleigh relates that he wished to approach this mountain, but, sad mischance, it was at that moment half submerged. "It had the form of a tower, and appeared to me rather white than yellow.
Coo-ee-oh has several of these boats which are kept in little rooms in the basement under our village. When the island is submerged, the Queen uses these boats to reach the shore, and I believe she now intends to fight the Flatheads with them."
But the force of the torrent, acting on the submerged branches and the slender end of the trunk, bent it like a bow and made it very unsteady, and after testing it by going out about a third of the way over, it seemed likely to be carried away when bent deeper into the current by my weight.