estuarine

estuary | American Dictionary

estuary
noun[ C ]
us/ˈes·tʃuˌer·i/
the part of a river or other area of water where it joins the sea, and where fresh water and salt water are mixed

Examples of estuary

estuary
Temporal and host-size related infection levels were monitored and discussed in relation to host movement within the estuary.
He concluded, therefore, that this age group of the fish population was restricted to the upper estuary during its first year of life.
The deep draught estuary was easy to defend since it had a narrow mouth surrounded by mountains.
Organic matter rich in phosphorus might also have been composted and imported from the swamp estuary or savanna zones.
This may work for the locals, but does not help people elsewhere there are all too many estuaries and bays around the world.
Rarely can an entire ecosystem, say a pond or estuary, reasonably be considered as a homogeneous environment.
This would suggest that it has been spreading upriver from a source near the estuary.
Juveniles live in shallow coastal waters and estuaries, which are also the summer feeding grounds for the adults.
Water from the sea enters this estuary, and salt congeals in it, not as thick as the other one, but it is very good salt.
Mangroves are a special group of plants colonising estuaries, deltas, lagoons and coasts.
On the way to the estuary, goods were frequently transferred from one boat to another for two reasons.
Everybody got together to open the estuary with their shovels, and once it became full of saltwater, they closed it.
Others include tenrecs (like a hedgehog), birds, locusts, grubs and shellfish and fish by the sea or in estuaries.
This density is in close proximity to a diversity of other resource zones-for example, the savanna, estuary, and coastal-marine zones.
In addition, the different feeding habits employed by flounders in the upper and middle estuary affect this parameter to a certain extent.
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