Examples of 'semiaquatic' in a sentence
Meaning of "semiaquatic"
Semiaquatic - referring to living or able to live both on land and in water
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- Spending part of the life cycle underwater. Also, spending a significant proportion of its time in both terrestrial and aquatic environments.
- Having the roots partially or entirely underwater.
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It is the only semiaquatic viper in the world.
Condylura cristata is unique from most talpids in being semiaquatic.
It is semiaquatic and has membranes joining the toes.
They are semiarboreal and semiaquatic.
Recovery of semiaquatic carnivore mammals and captive breeding.
Their structure evidences a clear adaptation to a semiaquatic way of life.
Any of the semiaquatic salamanders from the genus triturus.
Fossilized stomach contents confirm their semiaquatic freshwater habits.
This is a semiaquatic frog living around alpine lakes and streams.
Triassic temnospondyls were often the dominant semiaquatic animals in their environments.
Males with semiaquatic territories have the most success in defending them.
This species is semiaquatic.
The semiaquatic habitat of the larvae makes the petaltails unique in the modern dragonfly families.
Indicators and assessment methods for aquatic and semiaquatic environments.
Ichthyomys is a genus of semiaquatic rodents in the family Cricetidae.
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A paddy field is a flooded parcel of arable land used for growing semiaquatic rice.
Larvae are semiaquatic.
Capybaras are semiaquatic mammals found throughout almost all countries of South America except Chile.
The Nimba otter shrew is nocturnal and semiaquatic.
Osteological analyses have suggested a semiaquatic lifestyle for some members of this clade.
The semiaquatic Russian desman is listed in the Russian Red Book of endangered species.
This means that the echidnas shared a semiaquatic ancestor and only later colonized the land.
Haldanodon is a terrestrial mammal, and it is semifossorial and semiaquatic as well.
We describe adaptations for a semiaquatic lifestyle in the dinosaur Spinosaurus aegyptiacus.
This leads not only to death of diving, as well as semiaquatic birds.
Anacondas are semiaquatic snakes found in tropical South America.
Rheomys is a genus of Mexican and Central American semiaquatic rodents in the family Cricetidae.
Technically more semiaquatic than marine, the platypus is a strange animal.
It, like other extinct alligatorines, was probably terrestrial rather than semiaquatic.
Neusticomys is a genus of semiaquatic South American rodents in the family Cricetidae.
All of these early mekosuchines were terrestrial, unlike their semiaquatic crocodile relatives.
Anacondas are large semiaquatic snakes found in tropical regions of South America.
It feeds primarily on specific snakes, probably semiaquatic and fossorial snakes.
Later semiaquatic temnospondyls, such as trematosaurs and capitosaurs, have no evidence of scales.
By this time, temnospondyls had become a common and widespread component of semiaquatic ecosystems.
Unlike most other semiaquatic animals, the hippopotamus has very little hair.
Newts of this genus are primarily nocturnal, and may be either fully aquatic or semiaquatic.
Gavialids are large semiaquatic reptiles, resembling crocodiles, but with much thinner snouts.
These adaptations evolved over time, as some terrestrial animals moved to a semiaquatic lifestyle.
Aquatic and semiaquatic mammals, including otters and seals are often cared for at aquariums.
The only other non-avian dinosaurs known to have been adapted for a semiaquatic lifestyle are spinosaurids.
Watercress is a semiaquatic plant, increasingly incorporated into our diet, which prevents certain diseases.
These early amniotes had a series of characteristics that set them apart from their semiaquatic ancestors,.
Aquatic and semiaquatic animals, including otters and penguins, may also be kept by public aquaria.
Like other Mesozoic temnospondyls, adult metoposaurids were adapted to a semiaquatic lifestyle.
Any burrowing or semiaquatic mammal would have had additional protection from K-Pg boundary environmental stresses.
One of these genera, Qianosuchus, is unique among pseudosuchians in its semiaquatic lifestyle.
Unlike semiaquatic temnospondyls, terrestrial temnospondyls have skulls that are adapted for biting land-living prey.
It is believed that Cochleosaurus was a semiaquatic ambush predator, hunting like modern crocodiles.
Many semiaquatic bugs ( Heteroptera ) are known to engage in kleptoparastism of prey.
