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estuary

noun
/ˈɛstjʊəɹi/UK/ˈɛst͡ʃuˌɛɹi/US

Etymology

From Latin aestuarium (“creek”, “estuary of a river”).

  1. derived from aestuarium

Definitions

  1. A coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge, resulting in a brackish…

    A coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge, resulting in a brackish water zone.

    • The railway then follows the widening estuary of the river, which at high tide has the appearance of a lake, but at low water presents a rather cheerless expanse of dark mud.

  2. An ocean inlet also fed by fresh river water.

  3. Estuary English

    • Many of them would move to the new private housing estates springing up further east along the Thames Corridor, where they would learn to 'speak Estuary'.

The neighborhood

Derived

estuarial, estuarian, estuaried, Estuary English, estuary seahorse, palaeoestuary, subestuary

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA