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brackish

brackish · more brackish · most brackish

солоноватый, солёный, противный

brackig, salzig

Of water, salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that…Of water, salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries.

/ˈbɹækɪʃ/

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

Значення

значень: 3

Of water, salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries.
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.
brackig, salzig
солонова́тыйsolonovátyj, солёныйsoljónyj
slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water)
Distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste.
brackig
проти́вныйprotívnyj
distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture
Repulsive.

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Estuaries are home to unique plant and animal communities that have adapted to brackish water.
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The mangrove ecosystem is a unique type of wetland that is adapted to brackish water.
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Русский

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slightly salty:

distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste:

Deutsch

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slightly salty:

Походження

From Scottish brack (from Middle Dutch brac (“brackish”)) + -ish. Cognate with Dutch brak

From Scottish brack (from Middle Dutch brac (“brackish”)) + -ish. Cognate with Dutch brak (“brackish”), German Low German brack, brakerg, brakig (“brackish”), German brackig (“brackish”), Danish brak (“brackish”), Swedish bräck (“brackish”), Norwegian brakk (“brackish”). Perhaps a distant doublet of brook.

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