freshwater
or fresh-wa·ter
accustomed to fresh water only, and not to the sea: a freshwater sailor.
small, provincial, or little known: a freshwater college.
Obsolete. untrained or of little experience.
Origin of freshwater
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Other definitions for fresh water (2 of 2)
water that does not contain a large amount of salt.
inland water, as ponds, lakes, or streams, that is not salt.
Origin of fresh water
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How to use freshwater in a sentence
The region is often called Earth’s third pole, because the stores of ice and snow in the Himalayan watershed amount to the largest reserves of freshwater outside of the polar regions.
Three things to know about the disastrous flood in India | Carolyn Gramling | February 9, 2021 | Science NewsThe size of the freshwater amphipods that Baikal seals eat, she says, “is much smaller than other krill or amphipod species consumed by seals.”
Using comb-shaped teeth, Baikal seals feed on tiny crustaceans like whales do | Jake Buehler | December 11, 2020 | Science NewsResearchers had previously suspected that Ancestral Puebloans once exploited the area’s lava tubes for freshwater.
Ancient people may have survived desert droughts by melting ice in lava tubes | Rachel Fritts | December 8, 2020 | Science NewsSouthern California doesn’t have enough freshwater sources to begin with.
Two Companies See a Golden Opportunity in the Tijuana River’s Brown Waters | MacKenzie Elmer | November 20, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoWith no land to cultivate, and no jobs available, Animesh has taken to fishing in the network of freshwater creeks that swirl through the delta’s jungles.
Turtles, fish, ospreys and rare freshwater sharks and sawfish thrive there.
China’s Nicaragua Canal Could Spark a New Central America Revolution | Nina Lakhani | November 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTImmovable Israeli colonies sit atop Palestinian freshwater reserves in the West Bank.
Occasionally freshwater or even marine forms may be found in an olian deposit, but they will be exceptional.
The Principles of Stratigraphical Geology | J. E. MarrAt the summit of the Cromer 'Forest' Series, however, is a true freshwater bed.
The Principles of Stratigraphical Geology | J. E. MarrThe freshwater turtle of the Amazon, of which there are various species, is one of the most useful of reptiles.
Martin Rattler | R.M. BallantyneSlowly this sea shallowed, giving rise to the alternating estuarine marine and freshwater deposits of the Coal Measures.
But they were only freshwater sailors; since, though they lived on the water, they avoided the open sea.
The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies | Robert Gordon Latham
British Dictionary definitions for freshwater
/ (ˈfrɛʃˌwɔːtə) /
of, relating to, or living in fresh water
(esp of a sailor who has not sailed on the sea) unskilled or inexperienced
US small and little known: a freshwater school
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Scientific definitions for freshwater
[ frĕsh′wô′tər ]
Consisting of or living in water that is not salty.
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