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Of or pertaining to an estuary.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1977, Sewell H. Hopkins, Sam R. Petrocelli, Limiting Factors Affecting the Commercial Fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Estuarine Pollution Control and Assessment: Proceedings of a Conference, Volume 1, page 179, The shellfishes, by far the most valuable part of gulf coast commercial fisheries, are even more estuarine than the finfishes.
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Formed in an estuary by alluvial deposition.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
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of or relating to or found in estuaries
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: estuarial
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Etymology tree English estuary Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ine English estuarine From estuary + -ine.
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Portuguese:
estuarino
— pertaining to an estuary
