Brackish Synonyms

brăkĭsh
Slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water)
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. somewhat salty
  2. saline
  3. briny
  4. undrinkable

Words Related to Brackish

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. salty
  2. fresh-water
  3. slow-flowing
  4. still-water
  5. salt-water
  6. hypersaline
  7. oligotrophic
  8. seawater

Brackish Sentence Examples

  • They can live in brackish and even in sea water.

  • Shell with prominent spire; distant from right tentacle, generally appendiculated; brackish water or fluviatile.

  • Its surroundings are bleak and sterile and its waters brackish and polluted with the drainage of the neighbouring city for nearly four centuries.

  • In the brackish waters of the east coast sea fish are found, together with pike, perch and other fresh-water forms. The crayfish is common in many places in central and southern Sweden.

  • The so-called lakes on the coast of the Adriatic north and south of the promontory of Gargano are brackish lagoons communicating with the sea.

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