Definition of freshwater
:water that is not salty especially when considered as a natural resource
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Part of the Morganza to the Gulf system is a Houma Navigation Canal lock, which will help direct freshwater from the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway south towards wetlands on Louisiana's coast.
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And the extent to which the earth can provide habitats for plants and animals, sequester atmospheric carbon and regulate the flow of freshwater depends on the vastness of the least affected regions.
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The oped (Opinion, June 1) submitted by water experts at Stanford University claimed there is only one desalination project in the state – to their knowledge – that will reduce strain on local freshwater.
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All power plants require large volumes of clean freshwater for cooling.
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Antarctica holds 60 percent of the world’s freshwater, frozen in an ice shelf that sheds nearly 1.2 trillion tons of icebergs a year , according to NASA.
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First Known Use of freshwater
14th century
Definition of freshwater
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:of, relating to, being, or living in freshwater
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:accustomed to navigating only in inland waters
- a freshwater sailor
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:inland and usually provincial
- a freshwater college
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Snow Lake contains a healthy population of lake chubsuckers - not a game fish, but one of Ohio's rarest suckers, a small, freshwater fish barely larger than a minnow -- and an indicator species only found in high-quality glacial lakes, Seidel said.
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Also known as Japanese rice fish, medaka are small, freshwater fish native to Japan.
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First Known Use of freshwater
1528
FRESHWATER Defined for English Language Learners
freshwater
adjective
Definition of freshwater for English Language Learners
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: of, relating to, or living in water that is not salty
FRESHWATER Defined for Kids
freshwater
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adjective
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Definition of freshwater for Students
:relating to or living in fresh water
- freshwater fish
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