Meaning of Freshwater | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A body of fresh water.
   countable
2. A place name:
3. A large village and civil parish in the west of the Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ3387).
4. A settlement on Bell Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
5. A designated place at Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador.
6. A neighbourhood of Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador.
7. An unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California, United States.
8. An unincorporated community in Nelson County, Virginia, United States.
9. A northern suburb of Sydney in Northern Beaches council area, New South Wales, Australia.
10. A suburb of Cairns in Cairns Region, Queensland, Australia.
11. A surname.

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Examples

“Fossils with low Sr/Ca ratios indicating origin in a freshwater of a type which has a low Sr/Ca ratio: […]”

“Smith (1958) found that N. limnicola in Lake Merced, virtually a freshwater, had no paragnaths or at the most one on section I against the "normal" 1–2.”

“The chances of long-term preservation of fossils in freshwaters are minimal, for freshwaters are readily disturbed and destroyed by drought on the land masses.”

“Freshwaters are portrayed in many artforms, including books such as Kenneth Grahame's childrens'^([sic]) story Wind in the Willows.”

“Schematic diagram of the viscosity effect during the injection of freshwater.”

“Above 200m, high-salinity water was being carried southward out of the Arabian Sea. This implies that most of the freshwater was imported into the Arabian Sea in the upper layer.”

“Actual field data of Cl distribution in soil after irrigation with TWW and freshwater were obtained in a field experiment in Israel (Feigin et al., 2005; Fine et al. 2007).”

“Alewives are anadromous fish: Born in freshwater, they spend their lives in the ocean, returning annually to their birthplaces to spawn.”

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