1(of an animal) living partly on land and partly in water.
（动物）半水栖的
semiaquatic crocodiles
半水栖鳄鱼。
Example sentencesExamples
Some species are semiaquatic; others live underground; yet others spend their entire lives in the canopy of tropical forest.
Adult salamanders may be aquatic, semiaquatic or terrestrial in their habits, and many otherwise terrestrial species seasonally enter water to breed.
The majority live in relatively open habitats, such as plains and savannas, but others dwell in forests, and one group is semiaquatic.
This second transition appears more profound than the first in that the distance traveled was greater and the full spectrum of semiaquatic locomotor morphologies was crossed.
‘The skull evolved first and was not related at all to a semiaquatic lifestyle,’ he said.
1.1(of a plant) growing in very wet or waterlogged ground.
（植物）半水生的
a semiaquatic vegetation of watercress and horsetails
Example sentencesExamples
Pavement rock depressions that retain shallow water for all or most of the year contain two aquatic or semiaquatic plants, both confined to these granitic habitats in Georgia and surrounding areas.
This small, cryptic, semiaquatic plant has 33 miles of designated critical habitat along the San Pedro River.
In Moreton Bay the semiaquatic fern called bungwall was the mainstay of local tribes.
Definition of semiaquatic in US English:
semiaquatic
adjective
1(of an animal) living partly on land and partly in water.
（动物）半水栖的
semiaquatic crocodiles
半水栖鳄鱼。
Example sentencesExamples
Some species are semiaquatic; others live underground; yet others spend their entire lives in the canopy of tropical forest.
Adult salamanders may be aquatic, semiaquatic or terrestrial in their habits, and many otherwise terrestrial species seasonally enter water to breed.
‘The skull evolved first and was not related at all to a semiaquatic lifestyle,’ he said.
This second transition appears more profound than the first in that the distance traveled was greater and the full spectrum of semiaquatic locomotor morphologies was crossed.
The majority live in relatively open habitats, such as plains and savannas, but others dwell in forests, and one group is semiaquatic.
1.1(of a plant) growing in very wet or waterlogged ground.
（植物）半水生的
Example sentencesExamples
Pavement rock depressions that retain shallow water for all or most of the year contain two aquatic or semiaquatic plants, both confined to these granitic habitats in Georgia and surrounding areas.
In Moreton Bay the semiaquatic fern called bungwall was the mainstay of local tribes.
This small, cryptic, semiaquatic plant has 33 miles of designated critical habitat along the San Pedro River.