submersed, pa. pple. and ppl. a.
(səbˈmɜːst)
[f. L. submersus, pa. pple. of submergĕre to submerge + -ed1.]
Submerged; covered with water, lying or growing under water. Now chiefly Bot. a. pa. pple.
| 1727 Bailey (vol. II), Submersed, plunged under Water, &c. 1776 J. Lee Introd. Bot. Explan. Terms 382 Submersum, submersed, sunk under the Surface of the Water. c 1789 Encycl. Brit. (1797) III. 444/2 A simple Leaf..may be Submersed, hid under the face of water. 1796 Phil. Trans. LXXXVI. 503 The fructification of the Chara being equally submersed. 1822 J. Flint Lett. Amer. 214 A humane society for the resuscitation of persons submersed in water. 1836 Macgillivray Trav. Humboldt i. 23 A chain of mountains that has been broken up and submersed. |
b. ppl. a.
| 1796 Phil. Trans. LXXXVI. 501, I do not hesitate to consider these grains of the submersed algæ to be..their effective seeds. 1807 Southey Espriella's Lett. II. 282 Submersed forests. 1836 Macgillivray Trav. Humboldt vi. 80 The islets of Coche and Cubagua are supposed to be remnants of the submersed land. 1847 W. E. Steele Field Bot. 36 Submersed leaves multifid. 1866 Treas. Bot. 999/1 A submersed aquatic belonging to the order Juncaginaceæ. 1868 Maidment's Scott. Ball. I. 29 The submersed ecclesiastic was William de Perisbi. |