Estuary

Definition of Estuary

Es´tu`a`ry
n.1.A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth.
2.A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith.
it to the sea was often by long and wide estuaries.
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a.1.Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata.

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