estuary

[Es·tu*a*ry]

An estuary is the place in the water where a tide and a river current meet, like the estuary at New York Harbor, where the Hudson River meets the Atlantic Ocean.

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A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth.

Noun
the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix


n.
A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth.

n.
A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith.

a.
Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata.


Estuary

Es"tu*a*ry , n.; pl. Estuaries . [L. aestuarium, from aestuare to surge. See Estuate.] [Written also '91stuary.] 1. A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth. [Obs.] Boyle. 2. A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith.
it to the sea was often by long and wide estuaries.

Estuary

Es"tu*a*ry, a. Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata. Lyell.

A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth.

Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata.

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