Lexic.us

Definition of Brackish

1. Adjective. Distasteful and unpleasant; spoiled by mixture. "A thin brackish gruel"

2. Adjective. Slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water). "The briny deep"

Definition of Brackish

1. a. Saltish, or salt in a moderate degree, as water in saline soil.

Definition of Brackish

1. Adjective. (of water) salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries ¹

2. Adjective. distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste. (rfex) ¹

3. Adjective. repulsive (rfex) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Brackish

1. salty [adj] - See also: salty

Medical Definition of Brackish

1. Mixed with salt, briny. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brackish

bracken bracken poisoning bracken staggers brackens bracket bracket creep bracket fungus bracket out bracketed bracketed blenny

bracketing bracketless bracketlike bracketry brackets brackish (current term) brackishly brackishness brackishnesses brackishwater

bracks bracky braconid braconids bracovirus bracoviruses bract bractea bracteal bracteate

Literary usage of Brackish

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1904)
"D overlying marine and brackish water beds combined. The fresh water beds should, therefore, be correlated with both the underlying and overlying marine ..."

2. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"Salt, fresh, and brackish water, a. ... These chief groups are connected by the intermediate link of forms of brackish ^vafer, ..."

3. The Bahama Islands by George Burbank Shattuck (1905)
"Those inland are more or less brackish, depending upon whether there is subterranean ... The water is only slightly brackish even in the dryest weather. ..."

4. Managing Water for Peace in the Middle East; Alternative Strategies by Masahiro Murakami (1995)
"3.5.4 Cost performance This case study on a very small-scale brackish-water RO desalination unit was aimed at evaluating the cost-effectiveness of supplying ..."

5. A Manual of Elementary Geology: Or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and Its by Charles Lyell (1854)
"... fish—Strata formed in shallow water—brackish water-beds—Upper, middle, and lower Purbeck—Alternations of brackish water, freshwater, and land—Dirt-bed, ..."

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