adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
water
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My brackish water tank is built into a wall.
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The gaoler returned hours later with a cup of brackish water , a bowl of badly-cooked meat and hard, stale bread.
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Breed exclusively by fresh and brackish water and marshes; often in coastal waters on migration.
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To be expected on sandy or gravelly shores where there is flushing with fresh or brackish water .
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Arius are brackish water to marine fish, which means a tank especially for them.
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It also has a slight preference for brackish water .
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Beds representing marine invasions may contain marine shells or brackish water shells, thus giving an indication of local conditions.
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Articles and books on brackish water fishkeeping are few and far between.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A layer of photosynthetic bacteria lives permanently on the boundary between brackish and highly saline water.
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All these tropical areas have their own brackish flora and fauna, but few if any are known in the trade.
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Although most of the levels are freshwater, some are brackish in their more southerly parts.
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Amazon and others World-wide examples of these brackish waters abound.
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Fresh or brackish lakes and lagoons, usually reed-fringed, also marshes.
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My brackish water tank is built into a wall.
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These fishes do best in brackish or salt water.
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They hunt for camel meat by putting land mines around the region's brackish waterholes.