BRACKISH WATER collocation | meaning and examples of use (original) (raw)
collocation in English
meanings of brackish and water
brackish
adjective
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/ˈbræk.ɪʃ/us
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/ˈbræk.ɪʃ/
Brackish water is salty, dirty, ...
water
noun
uk
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/ˈwɔː.tər/us
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/ˈwɑː.t̬ɚ/
a clear liquid, without colour or taste, that falls from the sky as rain and is necessary for animal and ...
Examples of brackish water
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The infection process of mullets with these cercariae is discussed in relation to salinity conditions prevailing in a brackish water stream.
No psychrospheric (deep marine), brackish water or freshwater ostracods are known at this relatively early stage in ostracod evolution.
Paragonimids are lung flukes of mammals (including humans) and utilise fresh or (rarely) brackish water snails and crustaceans as first and second intermediate hosts respectively.
The fissures 12, 13 and 16 that occur on the top quarried level were probably infilled by sediments in brackish water conditions.
This species is thus well adapted for living in islands where only brackish water is present.
Dissolved particulate matter in brackish water leads to a predominant reflection of the longer wavelengths, resulting in a reddish hue to the water.
Genuine brackish water parasites are difficult to distinguish from marine parasites.
Because brackish water is an extreme environment in which organisms tolerate lower or changing salinities, parasites have developed special adaptations which guarantee their successful existence in such an extreme environment.
These sources may be sea water, brackish water rivers, estuaries or lakes.
When demand was high, recourse was made to supplementary supplies of slightly brackish water which was treated by distillation.
There is brackish water and salt water and water from the river estuaries.
In addition, the seepage results in the loss of 33 million litres of brackish water a day.
Developments in electrodialysis, to make it the most economical commercially available process for desalting brackish water, are now being tested in a pilot plant.
They are quite happy with a glass of brackish water.
I understand that huge quantities are in fact used for cooling, but it is mostly seawater or brackish water from estuaries: comparatively little drinkable water is used.
This reverse-osmosis plant protects the fresh groundwater supplies from invasion by more brackish water.
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Only two fishes escape: the kanae (mullet) to the brackish water, and the maroro (flying fish) to the ocean.
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