brackish

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A house cat could survive on brackish to salty water for quite a while.

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distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture; "a thin brackish gruel"

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adjective

distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture; "a thin brackish gruel"

adjective

slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water); "a brackish lagoon"; "the briny deep"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for brackish.

adjective

distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture; "a thin brackish gruel"

adjective

slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water); "a brackish lagoon"; "the briny deep"

Example sentences

A house cat could survive on brackish to salty water for quite a while.

I'm only 26, so I suppose I'm living in a brackish estuary of naiveness and perspective.

One of the main reasons the Vasa is so well preserved is that the Baltic isn't saltwater - it's just slightly brackish.

In saltwater, shipworms will eventually eat away any exposed wood, but they don't live in brackish or fresh water.

The Spanish Wikipedia page points out that a well with brackish water was dug between 1702 and 1704, as part of a search to find drinkable water near the coast.

If we walked far enough past the swamp, we would be on the bay, which smelled kind of funky for being fresh-water, too far from the sea water to be even brackish though.

Further, the brackish water was inhospitable for the organisms that usually break down wood in the ocean, ship worms for example.

The natural state would be a low lying brackish wetland that's regularly flooded by the sea, and the natural state would be constantly evolving.

Bitcoin is at the brackish between macroeconomics and cryptography.

They're taking saltwater from brackish aquifers inland, not pumping it from the sea. In terms of pumping costs, it's no different than their current sources of water that are pumping out of the Edwards aquifer or other fresh groundwater sources.

In other locations the source water is brackish groundwater, wastewater, process water or any other local impaired water source that can be converted to freshwater using solar energy.

Keep in mind that the bigger earthquakes are caused by wastewater injection, not fracking.> Many of the larger earthquakes are caused by disposal wells, where the billions of barrels of brackish water brought up by drilling for oil and gas are pumped back into the ground.

These discoveries are painting a picture of ancient Mars that was not just occasionally wet or perhaps a hellscape Mars covered with brackish or boiling lakes but an almost familiar Mars with lakes and rivers that would be nearly drinkable for humans and that lasted millions of years at least.