semiaquatic
adjective
semiaquatic is an adjective meaning “Spending part of the life cycle underwater. Also, spending a significant proportion of its time in both terrestrial and aquatic environments” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-E-M-I-A-Q-U-A-T-I-C, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does semiaquatic mean?
adjective
- 1
Spending part of the life cycle underwater. Also, spending a significant proportion of its time in both terrestrial and aquatic environments.
- 2
Having the roots partially or entirely underwater.
- 3
Comprising some aspects of aquatic environs and some aspects of terrestrial ones.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of semiaquatic
- semi-aquatic
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is semiaquatic?
Semiaquatic appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does semiaquatic come from?
From semi- + aquatic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).