Brackish
adjective
Somewhat salty or salted, but not as salty as seawater.
The river water had a brackish taste after flowing through a salt mine.
Often appears as...
- brackish water
- brackish taste
adjective
Unpleasant or distasteful.
The food at the roadside diner had a brackish taste.
Often appears as...
- brackish taste
- brackish smell
adjective
Somewhat salty or salted, but not as salty as seawater.
The river water had a brackish taste after flowing through a salt mine.
Often appears as...
- brackish water
- brackish taste
adjective
Unpleasant or distasteful.
The food at the roadside diner had a brackish taste.
Often appears as...
- brackish taste
- brackish smell
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Habitats
Often used to describe water in environments where sea and fresh water mix, like estuaries.
Mangroves are typically found in brackish waters.
Pro Tip 2/3Aquarium Care
Some fish are kept in brackish aquariums; know this if discussing fishkeeping.
The figure 8 puffer thrives in a brackish aquarium setting.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Freshwater
Remember, 'brackish' implies that the water isn't suitable for drinking or agriculture.
Despite the rains, the well remained brackish and undrinkable.
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Habitats
Often used to describe water in environments where sea and fresh water mix, like estuaries.
Mangroves are typically found in brackish waters.
Pro Tip 2/3Aquarium Care
Some fish are kept in brackish aquariums; know this if discussing fishkeeping.
The figure 8 puffer thrives in a brackish aquarium setting.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Freshwater
Remember, 'brackish' implies that the water isn't suitable for drinking or agriculture.
Despite the rains, the well remained brackish and undrinkable.
Pro Tip 1/3Natural Habitats
Often used to describe water in environments where sea and fresh water mix, like estuaries.
Mangroves are typically found in brackish waters.
Pro Tip 2/3Aquarium Care
Some fish are kept in brackish aquariums; know this if discussing fishkeeping.
The figure 8 puffer thrives in a brackish aquarium setting.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Freshwater
Remember, 'brackish' implies that the water isn't suitable for drinking or agriculture.
Despite the rains, the well remained brackish and undrinkable.
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Video examples
No one can figure out...
If most marine fish entered brackish coastal waters, their cells would swell with freshwater in a lethal explosion. But when glass eels reach the coast, their kidneys shift to retain more salt and maintain their blood’s salinity levels.
Video examples
Sturgeon Surgery PIPE...
Orient's itself into the current so these fish feed okay with their pectoral fins out this is flying through the water historically sturgeon get much of their food from the ocean they actually do go into the saltwater the brackish
Video examples
No one can figure out...
If most marine fish entered brackish coastal waters, their cells would swell with freshwater in a lethal explosion. But when glass eels reach the coast, their kidneys shift to retain more salt and maintain their blood’s salinity levels.
Video examples
Sturgeon Surgery PIPE...
Orient's itself into the current so these fish feed okay with their pectoral fins out this is flying through the water historically sturgeon get much of their food from the ocean they actually do go into the saltwater the brackish
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Quote examples
Huey Newton
American Activist
You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree's fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down - bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.
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Adrienne Mayor
American Historian
In April 2001, I visited Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky. The heaps of mastodon and other large skeletons that used to loom out of the brackish backwaters along the Ohio River here are long gone, though the occasional big bone sometimes comes to light.
Quote examples
Susie Dent
English Scientist
Why use salty when you can have brackish? It carries a sense of part-water, part-salt, too, just like the sea.
Quote examples
Huey Newton
American Activist
You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree's fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down - bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.
Quote examples
Adrienne Mayor
American Historian
In April 2001, I visited Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky. The heaps of mastodon and other large skeletons that used to loom out of the brackish backwaters along the Ohio River here are long gone, though the occasional big bone sometimes comes to light.
Quote examples
Susie Dent
English Scientist
Why use salty when you can have brackish? It carries a sense of part-water, part-salt, too, just like the sea.
Example 1 of 3
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