brackish
Collocations
4ADJ.
powerful
VERB + BRACKISH
adapted, sides
BRACKISH + NOUN
marshland, odor, water
PREP.
without
Definitions
adj
Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries.
...by a low courſe and too long ſporting with the briny Ocean it taſts brackiſh and inſalubrious...
1992, Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 4. On all sides a powerful brackish marshland odor, the odor of damp, and decay, and black earth, black water.
Distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste.
Therefore the bread he had to eat Seemed brackish, less like corn than tares;
Repulsive
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seaw
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Example Bank
5...by a low courſe and too long ſporting with the briny Ocean it taſts brackiſh and inſalubrious...
Wiktionary1992, Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 4. On all sides a powerful brackish marshland odor, the odor of damp, and decay, and black earth, black water.
Wiktionary2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, Random House. The water we took on at Chatham Isle is now brackish & without a dash of brandy in it, my stomach rebels.
WiktionaryEstuaries are home to unique plant and animal communities that have adapted to brackish water.
Tatoeba · #6675763The mangrove ecosystem is a unique type of wetland that is adapted to brackish water.
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