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Definitions of brackish in various dictionaries:
adj - distasteful and unpleasant
adj - slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water)
Having a somewhat salty taste, especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water: “You could cut the brackish winds with a knife/Here in Nantucket” (Robert Lowell).
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| From Dutch for "salt", it's a term used of standing water with a salty, unpleasant taste |
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| (of water) slightly salty, as in river estuaries. |
| slightly salty |
| Having a somewhat salty taste, especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water: "You could cut the brackish winds with a knifeHere in Nantucket ( Robert Lowell). |
| Distasteful unpalatable: a thin, brackish gruel. |
| Brackish water is salty, dirty, and unpleasant. |
| (of water) slightly salty: |
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| Brackish water is water that has more salt than freshwater, but not as much as seawater. It may result from mixing of seawater with fresh water, as in estuaries, or it may occur in brackish fossil aquifers. The word comes from the Middle Dutch root "brak". Certain human activities can produce brackish water, in particular civil engineering projects such as dikes and the flooding of coastal marshland to produce brackish water pools for freshwater prawn farming. Brackish water is also the primary waste product of the salinity gradient power process. Because brackish water is hostile to the growth of most terrestrial plant species, without appropriate management it is damaging to the environment (see article on shrimp farms). * Technically, brackish water contains between 0.5 and 30 grams of salt per litremore often expressed as 0.5 to 30 parts per thousand (), which is a specific gravity of between 1.005 and 1.010. Thus, brackish covers a range of salinity regimes and is not considered a |