salt water

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Water in general
aquatically
bathwater
bathymetric
bathymetrically
bathymetry
brackish
briny
dishwater
distilled water
grey water
hydrosphere
hydrospheric
hypersaline
hypersalinity
non-turbulent
overwater
salt water
soft water
storm surge
wet

freshwater | American Dictionary

freshwater
adjective
us/ˈfreʃˌwɔt̬·ər, -ˌwɑt̬·ər/
relating to, living in, or consisting of water that does not contain salt:
The village is near a freshwater pond.

Examples of freshwater

freshwater
This draws an obvious dichotomy between marine and freshwater systems.
The ' prosobranch ' caenogastropods arose first in the sea and then moved into freshwater and onto land.
Human infections with the lung fluke are acquired by eating raw or undercooked freshwater crabs containing live metacercariae.
A slab of freshwater ice formed the smooth top of a billiard table made of ice blocks, with pockets and cushions crafted out of walrus-hide.
The available evidence on freshwater monogeneans supports the notion that monogenean infections are relatively more intense among hosts in which monogenean species richness is high.
This composition does not mean that marine hosts are only infected by marine parasites, freshwater hosts only by freshwater parasites, and so on.
Here they were maintained live in recirculating freshwater aquaria prior to their examination.
Two groups were maintained as controls and were examined after short-term or long-term transfer to laboratory freshwater.
A non-invasive morphometric technique to estimate the cestode plerocercoid load of small freshwater fishes.
However, variations in freshwater input, degree of storminess, and seasonal overturn, as dictated by orbital-climate controls, could have all affected productivity via nutrient supply.
Freshwater-adapted schistosome cercariae that emerge from snail hosts undergo profound changes when they penetrate skin to initiate infections.
Moreover, there are no vestiges of wetland agriculture in the freshwater swamps immediately to the west of the savanna.
Tardigrades are metameric invertebrates and are found worldwide in various habitats such as marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems.
Swimming in freshwater pools was only a risk factor if cattle drank there.
Since there are freshwater pools in the area, subjects were asked if they were used for swimming and if cattle drank there.
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