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Significados de brackish em inglês

(Of water) Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water.

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Uso de brackish em inglês
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The water is becoming brackish because of the salt water, she said.
The Guardian
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In July, five dolphins have been pulled from the lagoon's brackish water.
Wired
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And the brackish water in those shrimp ponds hints at the reason.
The Guardian
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The brackish nature of the water probably enables it to exist here.
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
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Nothing but brackish water could be obtained by digging in the sand.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 14,...
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In the town are several wells of brackish water, but no cisterns.
Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories...
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His coveralls stank of brackish water and he was covered in mud.
Table for five
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The water was brackish and bitter, but I drank it with eagerness.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar...
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The water about him was brackish, from its mixture with the tide.
As It Was in the Beginning
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Though wide, it is excessively shallow, and brackish during the rainy season.
Great African Travellers: From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Sta...
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It was filthy water, full of dirt, and very brackish to taste.
At Suvla Bay / Being the notes and sketches of scenes, character...
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They found a little brackish pool, and drank, in the late afternoon.
Blood of Tyrants
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You have rendered the one bitter and the other brackish to me.
De profundis
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Of course, there's the Hudson; but it's brackish, if not downright salt.
Darkness and Dawn
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It proved, as we feared, to be slightly brackish, but not undrinkable.
Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia / Performed Un...
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I could taste the cocaine drip in her mouth, the brackish sea.
The Girls
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