pa. pple. and ppl. a. [f. L. submersus, pa. pple. of submergĕre to SUBMERGE + -ED1.] Submerged; covered with water, lying or growing under water. Now chiefly Bot.

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  a.  pa. pple.

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1727.  Bailey (vol. II.), Submersed, plunged under Water, &c.

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1776.  J. Lee, Introd. Bot., Explan. Terms 382. Submersum, submersed, sunk under the Surface of the Water.

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c. 1789.  Encycl. Brit. (1797), III. 444/2. A simple Leaf … may be Submersed, hid under the face of water.

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1796.  Phil. Trans., LXXXVI. 503. The fructification of the Chara being equally submersed.

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1822.  J. Flint, Lett. Amer., 214. A humane society for the resuscitation of persons submersed in water.

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1836.  Macgillivray, Trav. Humboldt, i. 23. A chain of mountains that has been broken up and submersed.

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  b.  ppl. a.

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1796.  Phil. Trans., LXXXVI. 501. I do not hesitate to consider these grains of the submersed algæ to be … their effective seeds.

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1807.  Southey, Espriella’s Lett., II. 282. Submersed forests.

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1836.  Macgillivray, Trav. Humboldt, vi. 80. The islets of Coche and Cubagua are supposed to be remnants of the submersed land.

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1847.  W. E. Steele, Field Bot., 36. Submersed leaves multifid.

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1866.  Treas. Bot., 999/1. A submersed aquatic belonging to the order Juncaginaceæ.

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1868.  Maidment’s Scott. Ball., I. 29. The submersed ecclesiastic was William de Perisbi.

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