estuarine.

Of an estuary, where river water meets and mixes with the sea.

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Words that belong together

• estuarine waters
• estuarine mud

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Estuarine mud stretched between the channels.

The fish moved through the changing salinity of the estuarine waters.

Usage notes

Primary category: environment. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.