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emersed

[ ih-murst ]

adjective

Botany.
  1. risen or standing out of water, surrounding leaves, etc.


emersed

/ ɪˈ³¾ÉœË²õ³Ù /

adjective

  1. (of the leaves or stems of aquatic plants) protruding above the surface of the water
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of emersed1

1680–90; < Latin ŧ³¾±ð°ù²õ³Ü²õ (past participle of ŧ³¾±ð°ù²µ±ð°ù±ð to emerge ) + -ed 2
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The singer said he's "always had a connection with" country music after growing up emersed in the genre, so after embarking on "a different path," his country music homecoming is a "full-circle thing."

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"Someone who is not emersed in politics doesn't think of legislation in terms of clean or dirty," said Rosemary Jenks, who heads government relations for Numbers USA, a group pushing Trump to hold a hard line for immigration restrictions.

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Submersed or emersed aquatic plants, with slender creeping rootstocks, sending up elongated petioles, which bear at the apex a whorl of four nervose-veined leaflets, and at or near their base, or sometimes on the rootstock, one or more ovoid sporocarps.

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Whitish, filiform, pinnately branched; leaves remote, rarely subimbricate, obliquely ovate-triangular, rounded or obtuse, semi-cordate at base; lower lobe ovoid, acute or apiculate; underleaves ½ as large as the lateral, round-oval, deeply bifid, the lobes broad-subulate; diœcious; involucral leaves rather longer, with lanceolate lobes; perianth scarcely emersed, broadly pyriform, 5-carinate.

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Aquatic; immersed leaves 1–3-pinnately dissected into numerous capillary divisions; emersed leaves oblong, entire, serrate, or pinnatifid; pedicels widely spreading; pods ovoid, 1-celled, a little longer than the style.—Lakes and rivers, N. E.

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