Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for A-QUAT'IC
A-QUAT'IC, a. [L. aquaticus. See Aqua.]
Pertaining to water; applied to animals which live in water, as fishes; or to such as frequent it, as aquatic fowls; applied to plants, it denotes such as grow in water. Aquatical is rarely used.
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