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Estuarine

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to an estuary.

    "1977, Sewell H. Hopkins, Sam R. Petrocelli, Limiting Factors Affecting the Commercial Fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Estuarine Pollution Control and Assessment: Proceedings of a Conference, Volume 1, page 179, The shellfishes, by far the most valuable part of gulf coast commercial fisheries, are even more estuarine than the finfishes."

  2. 2
    Formed in an estuary by alluvial deposition.
Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to or found in estuaries wordnet

Etymology

From estuary + -ine.

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