Sentence examples for aquatic that from inspiring English sources

Like a penguin, the great auk was so definitively aquatic that while standing on land it looked simultaneously regal and ridiculous.

So says Felix Davey, a Belfast-born photographer so inspired by the sense of freedom he finds in all things aquatic that last year he was drawn to Scotland's west coast to seek out those he dubs the "Water Folk" – people for whom water is enmeshed in their lives.

Therefore, multiple approaches including ecogenomics studies, being one of the most important of them, need to be adapted to conserve the species both terrestrial and specifically aquatic that are moving slowly towards extinction (Kroeker, 2016; Barlow et al., 2016; Cinner et al., 2016).

Aquatic organisms that can tolerate a wide range of external ion concentrations are called euryhaline; those that have a limited tolerance are called stenohaline.

The central gallery has an aquatic shimmer that is slightly disorienting.

Gonyaulax, genus of dinoflagellates (single-celled aquatic organisms) that inhabit fresh, saline, or brackish water.

Presumably, the tadpole larva has an aquatic ear that is later transformed into an aerial type.

Sponge, any of the primitive multicellular aquatic animals that constitute the phylum Porifera.

River dolphin, any of six species of small, usually freshwater aquatic mammals that are related to whales (order Cetacea).

Living penguins make up a separate lineage characterized by smaller, highly aquatic species that began about 8 million years ago.

Hyphochytriomycota, a phylum of mostly aquatic fungi that contains approximately 23 species and is classified in the kingdom Chromista.