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semiaquatic
adjective
Alternative spelling of semi-aquatic
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The wood turtle is semiaquatic and hibernates in late fall in stream banks or other areas adjacent to streams.
Wild mink are semiaquatic and obtain most of their food near the water's edge.
Most species are active during the day and are terrestrial, although the marsh mongoose (Atilax paludinosus) and a few others are semiaquatic.
Many species are semiaquatic, frequenting streamside and spring habitats throughout their lives.
Some paleontologists argue that the phytosaurs ("plant reptiles"), also known as parasuchians, were the first lineage to evolve; they were semiaquatic and possessed extended snouts similar to those found in modern gavials.
The closest nonpinniped relatives of Enaliarctos were animals with semiaquatic otterlike specializations, such as Puijila, that lived during the Miocene.
College, and J.D. Willson and Christopher T. Winne, from the University of Georgia's Savannah River Ecology Laboratory in Aiken, S.C., examined how a semiaquatic pit viper, the eastern cottonmouth (Agkistrodon piscivorus), of the southeastern U.S. changed foraging habits from juvenile to adult.
Keeled skinks (Tropidophorus), which are semiaquatic, are found from Southeast Asia to northern Australia.
The scientists reported finding 14-million-year-old fossil stems and leaves of a semiaquatic moss in deposits of an ancient alpine lake in one of Antarctica's Dry Valleys.
All living species are aquatic to semiaquatic; however, during the Paleogene and Neogene periods, one group occurred in marine and estuarine environments in the Northern Hemisphere.
This group contained a great variety of semiaquatic forms such as the snakelike Ophiderpeton, the "horned" Keraterpeton, and the microsaurs, such as Asaphestera.
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