1) Arm 2) Firth 3) Gulf 4) Humber 5) Ria
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1) Arm of a sea 2) Arm of the sea 3) Body of water 4) Chesapeake Bay 5) Coastal and oceanic landform 6) Coastal geography 7) Fjord 8) Fresh and salt water mix 9) Inlet 10) Little sound 11) Ocean inlet 12) Part of a river 13) Puget Sound 14) River mouth 15) River mouth area 16) River offshoot 17) River to ocean connector
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a semi-enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.
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a semi-enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea. Healthy estuaries can have high rates of biological productivity.
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• (a.) Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata. • (n.) A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth. • (n.) A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith.
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A partially enclosed body of water freely connected to the ocean, within which the seawater is diluted by mixing with freshwater and where tidal fluctuations affect river water levels. The estuary is a dynamic system typified by brackish water, variable and often high nutrient levels and by shallow water conditions often associated with marsh plant...
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<ecology, marine biology> An inlet or arm of the sea, especially the wide mouth of a river, where the tide meets the current. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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A drowned river valley in a coastal lowland area. Occurs near or at the mouth of a river, where the tide meets the current and the fresh and salt waters mix.
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A coastal body of water that is semi-enclosed, openly connected with the ocean, and mixes with freshwater drainage from land.
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Es'tu·a·ry adjective Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as,
estuary strata.
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Es'tu·a·ry noun ;
plural Estuaries . [ Latin
aestuarium , from
aestuare to surge. See
Estuate .] [ Written also
æstuary .]
1. A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth. [ Obsolete]
Boyle. 2. A passage, as the mouth o...
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A bay at the mouth of a river formed by subsidence of the sand or by a rise in sea level. Fresh water from the river mixes with and dilutes seawater in an estuary.
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A semi-encolsed body of water having connections to the ocean at the downstream end and freshwater streams at the upstream end. Water in estuaries thus tends to be at an intermediate and variable salinity and temperature
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An area where fresh water comes into contact with seawater, usually in a partly enclosed coastal body of water; a mix of fresh and salt water where the current of a stream meets the tides; estuarine
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(L: aestus tide) an almost enclosed part of the sea with an opening to the sea through which the tide enters and at the other end one or more rivers. Estuaries are the places where the runoff from the land, carried by the rivers, mixes intensively with the salt water from the sea. In summer the estuaries are warmer than the sea but in winter they a...
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A water passage where the tide meets a river current; especially : an arm of the sea at the lower end of a river.
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a semi-enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.
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A semienclosed body of water that has a free connection with the open sea and within which seawater is diluted measurably with freshwater that is derived from land drainage
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(1) A semi-enclosed coastal body of water which has a free connection with the open sea. The seawater is usually measurably diluted with freshwater. (2) The part of the river that is affected by tides. (3) (SMP) The zone or area of water in which freshwater and saltwater mingle and water is usually brackish due to daily mixing and layering of fresh...
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A body of water that is partly enclosed by land but is still connected to the open sea. Usually freshwater e.g. from a river flows into the estuary and seawater flows in and out with the tide. The two waters meet and mix.
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noun the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix
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A partly enclosed coastal body of water, open to the ocean so that fresh and salt water are mixed.
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the point at which a river meets the sea; where salt water and fresh water mix.
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a place where fresh and salt water mix, such as a bay, salt marsh, or where a river enters an ocean.
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A transitional zone along the coastline where ocean saltwater mixes with freshwater from the land. A term used to describe the open area and distance across a bay or body of water in which wind can exert energy on waves to cause them to be higher and more forceful upon impact with shorelines.
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