About The Word Estuary
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Estuary
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What's The Definition Of Estuary?
[n] the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix
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aestuare to surge. See {Estuate}.] [Written also
{[ae]stuary}.]
1. A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth.
[Obs.] --Boyle.
2. A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide
meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith.
it to the sea was often by long and wide estuaries.
--Dana.
\Es"tu*a*ry\, a. Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata. --Lyell. |
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