Estuaries are home to unique plant and animal communities that have adapted to brackish water.
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Brackish
//ˈbɹækɪʃ//
Synonyms for "brackish" (39 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (12)
Related words (19)
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5 entriesderived from
1 entriesrelated to
6 entriessimilar
4 entriesTranslations
55 translations across 31 languages.
Arabic
3 entries- آسِن adj (slightly salty)
- آسِن adj (distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste)
- زُعَاق adj (slightly salty)
Bulgarian
1 entries- леко солен adj (slightly salty)
Catalan
1 entries- salabrós adj (slightly salty)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 半海水 adj (slightly salty)
- 汽水 adj (slightly salty)
Danish
3 entries- brak adj (slightly salty)
- brakt vand adj (slightly salty)
- brakvand adj (slightly salty)
Dutch
1 entries- brak adj (slightly salty)
Finnish
2 entries- epämiellyttävä adj (distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste)
- murto adj (slightly salty)
French
1 entries- saumâtre adj (slightly salty)
German
3 entries- brackig adj (slightly salty)
- brackig adj (distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste)
- salzig adj (slightly salty)
Hungarian
2 entries- brakk adj (slightly salty)
- félsós adj (slightly salty)
Icelandic
1 entries- ísaltur adj (slightly salty)
Indonesian
1 entries- payau adj (slightly salty)
Irish
1 entries- goirt adj (slightly salty)
Italian
1 entries- salmastro adj (slightly salty)
Japanese
1 entries- まずい adj (distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste)
Manx
1 entries- sailjey adj (slightly salty)
Māori
4 entries- kurutai adj (slightly salty)
- kurutaitai adj (slightly salty)
- kōtaitai adj (slightly salty)
- kōtaitai adj (distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- brakk adj (slightly salty)
- brakkvann adj (slightly salty)
- brakkvatn adj (slightly salty)
- brakt vann / vatn adj (slightly salty)
Norwegian Nynorsk
3 entries- brakk adj (slightly salty)
- brakkvatn adj (slightly salty)
- brakt vatn adj (slightly salty)
Occitan
1 entries- salabrós adj (slightly salty)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- آجی adj (slightly salty)
- چوراق adj (slightly salty)
Polish
1 entries- słonawy adj (slightly salty)
Portuguese
2 entries- salobre adj (slightly salty)
- salobro adj (slightly salty)
Romanian
1 entries- sălciu adj (slightly salty)
Russian
3 entries- проти́вный adj (distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste)
- солонова́тый adj (slightly salty)
- солёный adj (slightly salty)
Spanish
3 entries- desabrido adj (distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste)
- salobral adj (slightly salty)
- salobre adj (slightly salty)
Swedish
1 entries- bräckt adj (slightly salty)
Tagalog
1 entries- matabsing adj (slightly salty)
Thai
1 entries- กร่อย adj (slightly salty)
Vietnamese
1 entries- lợ adj (slightly salty)
Welsh
1 entries- lled hallt adj (slightly salty)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
The mangrove ecosystem is a unique type of wetland that is adapted to brackish water.
Source: tatoeba (11567744)
...by a low courſe and too long ſporting with the briny Ocean it taſts brackiſh and inſalubrious...
Source: wiktionary
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.
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