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# brackish

«brackish» in Mova's school dictionary: **Slightly salty, a mix of fresh water and sea water, like…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (brackish)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Slightly salty, a mix of fresh water and sea water, like water where a river meets the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brackish/#m1)

2) (of water) Not nice to drink, a bit salty or dirty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brackish/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science lessons it describes estuaries, mangroves, marshes and lagoons, where special plants and animals live. Phrases: "brackish water", "brackish lagoon".

### examples

- Brackish water is found where rivers meet the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brackish/#x1)
- Mangroves grow well in brackish water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brackish/#x2)
- The well water tasted brackish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brackish/#x3)
- Some fish can live in fresh, salty and brackish water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brackish/#x4)
- The Baltic Sea is brackish, less salty than the ocean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brackish/#x5)
- Never drink brackish water when camping; it can make you ill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brackish/#x6)

### note

Adjective only. Brackish water is in between fresh water (almost no salt) and sea water (about 35 grams of salt per litre).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «brackish» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/brackish/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.