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Living in water. Growing in water. A plant able to grow with at least its base immersed in water. Aquatics come in many different forms, including submerged, emergent and floating. Gardeners use aquatics mostly in ponds and streams, but they are also grown in tanks by aquarium fanciers.  

Wingless.  

(Colour) orange-pink. Like Mozart, Edison, or Keats, apricots are precocious. The ancient Romans called this fruit malum praecoquum—malum meaning fruit and the Latin praecoquum literally meaning precooked but metaphorically meaning early ripened. Apricots and geniuses are therefore praecoquum—or in English precocious— because they ripen before their peers. In the first century, Greeks took part of…

Close to, very similar to. To place or bring objects close together.  

Lying close and flat (e.g. branches or hairs on a stem). Pressed flat (or nearly so) against another surface. Brought into contact, but not united. Flattened onto the surface of the cap or stem, as in appressed fibrils or scales. Flattened against but not joined to the stem.  

With appendage or appendages. Hung with pieces of tissue of the partial veil.