demersed

English

Etymology

From Latin dēmersus, past participle of dēmergere. Botanical sense coined by botanist Thomas Martyn in the 1790s.

Verb

demersed

  1. simple past and past participle of demerse.

Adjective

demersed (not comparable)

  1. (botany) Situated or growing or constantly under water, as leaves; submersed.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “demersed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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