Brackish

Estuaries are home to unique plant and animal communities that have adapted to brackish water.

The mangrove ecosystem is a unique type of wetland that is adapted to brackish water.

...by a low courſe and too long ſporting with the briny Ocean it taſts brackiſh and inſalubrious...

1992, Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 4. On all sides a powerful brackish marshland odor, the odor of damp, and decay, and black earth, black water.

2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, Random House. The water we took on at Chatham Isle is now brackish & without a dash of brandy in it, my stomach rebels.

White Slough is a large tidal wetland full of brackish water from the Napa River that flows into the city of Vallejo from under Highway 37.

Therefore the bread he had to eat Seemed brackish, less like corn than tares;