tidewater
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7.3
- noun
- /ˈtaɪdˌwɔːtər/
:
zona intermareal
- The tidewater region is often rich in wildlife and provides crucial habitats for many species.
- tidewater glacier
- tidewater area
Examples
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They are only freshwater or tidewater turtles.
Fiction book (1994) -
The glacier is 300 feet high and 6 miles wide and is the largest tidewater glacier in the world.
Academic text (2005) -
Other areas may be characterized by numerous smaller streams, each entering directly into a tidewater area.
Academic text (1991) -
There is a heck of a lot of coal out there, and the biggest part of it is close to ice-free tidewater for a longer season every year these days.
Blog text (1) -
But if there is a flash flood at high tide, pressure sensors keep the weir inflated just enough to release storm water while keeping tidewater out.
Academic text (2016) -
Similar technologies are helping Everitt and his colleagues study large areas of riparian vegetation—the plant life along streams and rivers and in tidewater areas.
Academic text (1999) -
Surface circulation in upper Cook Inlet is driven by the mixing of incoming and outgoing tidewater combined with freshwater inputs (Fig. 6).
Academic text (2000) -
A curly-headed man in his fifties tells me in all sincerity how Legba showed him how to swim the moment he fell off a boat in the tidewaters off Samana.
Fiction book (1999) -
The entire power-ingot system had access to both a railroad line and a tidewater fiord, so that raw materials such as bauxite could be brought virtually to the site of power generation, and the ingot exported by rail or ship for further processing, all at low transportation cost.
Academic text (2004) -
Typically, metropolitan-scale drainage systems flow from their headwaters in rural areas or suburbs, through lower-income urban districts, past (and sometimes under) central business districts, and then discharge into tidewater, lakes, or larger streams.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
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4.2
An area of shore that the sea covers and uncovers with each tide
Land near the sea that the tide covers and uncovers
Compounds
A stream whose water level and flow change with sea tides, reaching far upstream
- US
A low-lying coastal area in eastern Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia affected by tides
A low coastal area in the southeastern United States near the Atlantic Ocean
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Tidewater comes from the two simple words tide ('the regular rise and fall of the sea') and water, so it names land by the sea that is moved or covered by tides; that's why tidewater means low coastal land that is regularly wet or drained by tidal waters.