freshwater
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- noun
- /ˈfrɛʃˌwɔtər/
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agua dulce
- He enjoys fishing in the freshwater lakes near his home.
- freshwater species
- freshwater fisheries
- freshwater ecosystems
So it's how you know freshwater has a smaller density than saltwater.
- So it's how you know freshwater has a smaller density than saltwater.
- He arrives and he finds himself on this vast sea of, of not salt water, but freshwater.
- And, and, and that water is so that's freshwater going into saltwater.
- We may have an excess of salt water, freshwater.
- The the the transition from salt water or freshwater salt water.
- The clean air that we have, the freshwater that we breathe, the fertile land, the standing forest.
Examples
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Many of you, I expect, have been swimming in a freshwater lake in early summer.
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I pulled myself onto the bank and found a freshwater stream running alongside it just a few yards away.
Fiction book (1997) -
There's a freshwater spring on this island.
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There's a freshwater lake a few miles inland.
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These salmon are born in upstream freshwater streams or or rivers.
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Plus, nearly all mayflies are a staple of freshwater fish diets.
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The Muskie, king of freshwater fish is best known for its audacious eating habits.
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Species were classified as predominantly marine, terrestrial, or freshwater according to conservation advice and recovery plan documents.
Academic text (2011) -
The bottom layer contains freshwater which has been dyed green, and separating them is a metal barrier.
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But draining the rivers is what people sometimes like to do for irrigation, for farms, for using that freshwater for something else.
Synonyms
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Water that is not salty and found in rivers and lakes
Fresh water that is not salty, found in rivers and lakes
Antonyms
Compounds
A small cone-shaped freshwater snail that lives on stones and plants and eats algae
A fish from lakes and rivers in North America that people catch for food and sport
- Specialized
A grass that grows in fresh water wetlands and helps hold the soil
How Salty
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Etymology
Freshwater is simply the two words fresh and water put together. The word fresh here means 'not salty' or 'clean', so freshwater is the kind of water you find in rivers and lakes and that people use for drinking and farming.