# Aquatic

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**Aquatic** means relating to [water](/source/Water); living in or near water or taking place in water; does not include groundwater, as "aquatic" implies an environment where plants and animals live.

**Aquatic(s)** may also refer to:

- [Aquatic animal](/source/Aquatic_animal), either vertebrate or invertebrate, which lives in water for most or all of its life
- [Aquatic ecosystem](/source/Aquatic_ecosystem), environmental system located in a body of water
- [Aquatic plants](/source/Aquatic_plant), also called hydrophytic plants or hydrophytes, are plants that have adapted to living in or on aquatic environments
- [*Aquatic* (album)](/source/Aquatic_(album)), 1994 album by the Australian experimental jazz trio, The Necks
- Aquatics, another name for [water sports](/source/List_of_water_sports)

## See also

- [Aquatics (disambiguation)](/source/Aquatics_(disambiguation))
- [Freshwater ecosystem](/source/Freshwater_ecosystem), an earth aquatic ecosystems
- [Limnology](/source/Limnology), the study of inland waters
- [Marine biology](/source/Marine_biology), the scientific study of organisms in the ocean or other marine or brackish bodies of water
- [Oceanography](/source/Oceanography), the study of marine environments

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