ESTUARY


Meaning of ESTUARY in English

[es.tu.ary] n, pl -ar.ies [L aestuarium, fr. aestus boiling, tide; akin to L aestas summer--more at edify] (1538): a water passage where the tide meets a river current; esp: an arm of the sea at the lower end of a river

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