Meanings
adjectivesubmergent (not comparable)
- not comparableunderwater; submerged; aquatic
Recent uplift of the Maine and Oregon coasts has not been enough to "undrown" the larger valleys; the shorelines are still submergent.
1971, George Finiel Adams, Jerome Wyckoff, Landforms, page 143
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with submergent
urgentemergentdetergentdivergentconvergentinsurgentresurgentabstergentassurgentneurodivergentsurgentturgentvergent
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