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Buoyant

Buoyant

1. Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury. Buoyant on the flood.

2. Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier. The water under me was buoyant. (Dryden)

3. Light-hearted; vivacious; cheerful; as, a buoyant disposition; buoyant spirits. Buoyantly.

Origin: From Buoy, & i.


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relationship between skeletal type and habitat

... fish being the most abundant form of life in the sea due to buoyancy and because they use an endoskeletal structue (which is lighter) thus more buoyant they have become sucessful marine and freshwater animals. i went on to compare the fish to crustaceans the surface dwellers who use there skeleton ...

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by rhillisdundee
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