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Adjective
/ˈbrakiSH/,
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(of water) Slightly salty, as is the mixture of river water and seawater in estuaries,
  1. (of water) Slightly salty, as is the mixture of river water and seawater in estuaries

  2. (of fish or other organisms) Living in or requiring such water

  3. Unpleasant or distasteful
    • - the lighting in the movie is brackish
  1. distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture; "a thin brackish gruel"
  2. slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water); "a brackish lagoon"; "the briny deep"
  3. (brackishness) the quality of being salty, as the saltiness of water
  4. Brackish water is water that has more salinity than fresh water, 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," meaning "salten" or "salty". ...
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  6. salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries; distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste; repulsive
  7. Water of intermediate salinity between seawater and freshwater.
  8. A taste fault giving the coffee brew a salty and alkaline sensation. The result of salts and alkaline inorganic material left after evaporation of water from the brew due to excessive heat after brewing.
  9. Water with a chloride (salt) level greater than 250 milligrams per liter (mg/L) and less than 19,000 mg/L.
  10. Having low salt content. Scientist consider water with salinity values ranging from approximately 0.50 to 17.00 parts per thousand (ppt) to be brackish.
  11. a slightly saline environment where sea water inputs are moderated by an inflow of freshwater.
  12. Mixed fresh and salt water.
  13. Water that is part salty and part fresh found at the mouths of rivers and in coastal lagoons.
  14. water that is neither fresh nor saltwater, but is somewhere in between. In nature this occurs at the mouths of rivers and swamps near the sea.
  15. Water that has a slight salt content with a specific gravity ranging from 1.006-1.015. Found naturally where rivers meet the ocean.
  16. Water that is mostly fresh, with some salt. The far ends of tidal creeks are mostly brackish, supporting sometimes fresh and saltwater fish.
  17. Slightly salty water. Brackish water at the Earth’s surface often occurs in estuaries and lagoons where freshwater and seawater mix.
  18. water that is not fresh but is not fully salt water
  19. Environment that is influenced by seawater with a salinity less than 35 parts per thousand (usually caused by the presence of an inflow of fresh water).
  20. a combination of fresh and sea water, as occurs naturally in estuaries. Salinity: 15 - 20 ppt, pH 8.0
  21. having an unpleasant taste; nauseating.
  22. Somewhat salty, as in brackish water.
  23. term referred to animals or water bodies. When the term is used for water means that the specific water has a salt concentration of 0,5 p.p.t. to 30 p.p.t. (0,5 gr to 30 gr of salts per litre).
  24. water salinity of 2,400-8,000EC.
  25. slightly salty water