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water-based
a. (alternative form of waterbased English)
Usage examples of "water-based".
Standing like the Om and the Um on either side of a gate, these two emissions of the disassociation products of water beckon all water-based life to search for its kind at the age-old meeting place of all species: the water hole" (1972.
It is even conceivable that water-based life will communicate at water frequencies, ammonia-based life at ammonia frequencies, etc.
Are we carbon and water-based because those materials were abundant on the Earth at the time of the origin of life?
Archer wondered if she had an idea—if Vulcans had contacted water-based civilizations before—but he didn’t ask.