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# aquatic

«aquatic» in Mova's school dictionary: **living or growing in water, as in «aquatic plants»** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (aquatic, more aquatic); noun (an aquatic, aquatics — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Aquatic means living or growing in water, as in «aquatic plants». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aquatic/#m1)

2) Aquatic also means happening in or on water, as in «aquatic sports» like swimming and diving. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aquatic/#m2)

3) (rare) An aquatic is a plant or animal that lives in water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aquatic/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on habitats, adaptations and food chains (aquatic animals, aquatic habitats); in PE and leisure, aquatic centres and sports; opposite: terrestrial (living on land).

### examples

- Frogs lay their eggs in an aquatic habitat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aquatic/#x1)
- Water lilies are aquatic plants. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aquatic/#x2)
- Fish have gills because they are aquatic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aquatic/#x3)
- We went to the aquatic centre for swimming lessons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aquatic/#x4)
- Diving and water polo are aquatic sports. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aquatic/#x5)
- Otters are partly aquatic animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aquatic/#x6)
- The white aquatic birds skimmed the surface of the water in their flight, and all was calm and still as amid the black rocks at Delphi. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aquatic/#x7)

### note

From Latin «aqua» (water), like aquarium. Opposite in science: «terrestrial» (land). «Marine» means living in the sea; «aquatic» means any water, fresh or salty.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «aquatic» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/aquatic/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.