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estuary 音標拼音: ['ɛstʃu ,ɛri] n. 河口,江口 河口,江口 estuary n 1: the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mixEstuary \ Es" tu* a* ry\, n.; pl. { Estuaries}. [ L. aestuarium, from aestuare to surge. See { Estuate}.] [ Written also {[ ae] stuary}.] 1. A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth. [ Obs.] -- Boyle. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith. [ 1913 Webster] it to the sea was often by long and wide estuaries. -- Dana. [ 1913 Webster]
Estuary \ Es" tu* a* ry\, a. Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata. -- Lyell. [ 1913 Webster] 64 Moby Thesaurus words for " estuary": arm, armlet, avenue, bay, bayou, belt, bight, blowhole, boca, channel, chute, cove, creek, debouch, door, egress, emunctory, escape, euripus, exhaust, exit, fjord, floodgate, flume, frith, gulf, gut, harbor, inlet, kyle, loch, loophole, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, opening, out, outcome, outfall, outgate, outgo, outlet, pore, port, reach, road, roads, roadstead, sally port, sluice, sound, spiracle, spout, strait, straits, tap, vent, ventage, venthole, vomitory, way out, weir
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