Meanings
adjectivesemibuoyant (not comparable)
- not comparablePartially buoyant.
Comb the Manhattan waterfront and you will find, along with the usual windrows of cups, bottles and plastic bags, what the E.P.A. calls “floatables,” those “visible buoyant or semibuoyant solids” that people flush into the waste stream like cotton swabs, condoms, tampon applicators and dental floss.
2008 June 22, Donovan Hohn, “Sea of Trash”, in New York Times
Origin
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semibuoyant. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/semibuoyant
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“semibuoyant.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/semibuoyant. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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