Estuary

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Estuary \Es"tu*a*ry\, a.
     Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata.
     --Lyell.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Estuary \Es"tu*a*ry\, n.; pl. {Estuaries}. [L. aestuarium, from
     aestuare to surge. See {Estuate}.] [Written also
     {[ae]stuary}.]
     1. A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth.
        [Obs.] --Boyle.
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     2. A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide
        meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith.
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              it to the sea was often by long and wide estuaries.
                                                    --Dana.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  estuary
       n : the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and
           salt water mix

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "estuary":
     arm, armlet, avenue, bay, bayou, belt, bight, blowhole, boca,
     channel, chute, cove, creek, debouch, door, egress, emunctory,
     escape, euripus, exhaust, exit, fjord, floodgate, flume, frith,
     gulf, gut, harbor, inlet, kyle, loch, loophole, mouth, narrow,
     narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, opening, out, outcome,
     outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet, pore, port, reach, road, roads,
     roadstead, sally port, sluice, sound, spiracle, spout, strait,
     straits, tap, vent, ventage, venthole, vomitory, way out, weir