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FRESHWATER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Water that is not salty
Synonyms:
fresh water; freshwater
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("freshwater" is a kind of...):
H2O; water (binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid; freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade; widely used as a solvent)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "freshwater"):
rain; rainwater (drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds)
condensate (a product of condensation)
Context examples:
Historically, alligators have been considered a freshwater species due to their lack of salt-secreting glands.
(Alligators, rulers of the swamps, link marine and freshwater ecosystems, NSF)
A. solmonicida is found in freshwater and marine environments and causes furunculosis in fish and bald sea urchin disease.
(Aeromonas salmonicida, NCI Thesaurus)
More than 90 percent of our planet’s freshwater ice is bound in the massive ice sheets and glaciers of the Antarctic and Greenland.
(The Hidden Meltdown of Greenland, NASA)
Easter Island does not have streams that run nonstop but it does have an aquifer that produces freshwater seeps of brackish but drinkable water during low tide.
(Scientists report correlation between locations of Easter Island statues and water resources, Wikinews)
Some, including crayfishes, live in freshwater habitats; others (e.g., sand fleas, land crabs, and sow bugs) live in moist terrestrial environments.
(Crustacean, NCI Thesaurus)
Black carbon from those fires — more commonly known as soot — would have been transported by atmospheric winds and deposited in Antarctic glaciers and later entered in lakes through freshwater run-off from nearby glaciers.
(Antarctic lakes are a repository for ancient soot, NSF)
Threatened social interest species include a number of stingless bees (known locally as uruçu, mandaçaia, and jandaíra), swamp ghost crabs, blue land crabs, a freshwater shrimp locally known as pitu, mangrove root crabs, catfish, yellowmouth groupers, jewfish, hammerhead sharks, among others.
(Over 300 animal species threatened in Bahia, Agência Brasil)
Without this process, methane emissions from freshwater wetlands could be 30 to 50 percent greater.
(Methane-eating microorganisms help regulate emissions from wetlands, NSF)
This study focuses on a species of freshwater fish, tilapia.
(Steaming Fish More Healthy than Boiling, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
We’ve been measuring ‘carbon’ in freshwater as a proxy for everything from water quality to the productivity of freshwater ecosystems.
(Climate change could double greenhouse gas emissions from freshwater ecosystems, University of Cambridge)
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