artesian.

Relating to groundwater held under natural pressure, or to a well that taps it.

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Words that belong together

• artesian well
• artesian water

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An artesian well supplied the farm even during the dry summer.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting / environment. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: setting, description. Commonness: moderately common.