Definition of "emersed" [e•mersed]

• Botany Rising above the surface of water: emersed aquatic plants. (adjective)

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• "I think that even though they present their version of language teaching as total emersion, if you were "emersed" you would at the very least have a japanese english dictionary!"
• "The story wouldn't have worked if the alien Idea wasn't so emersed in."
• "As I grew older, the amount of “scrappers” that I knew grew exponentially, and now I feel fully emersed in the language, the lifestyle, and worst of all, the ecological consequences."