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Definition of Phreatic
1. Adjective. Of or relating to ground water.
Definition of Phreatic
1. a. Subterranean; -- applied to sources supplying wells.
Definition of Phreatic
1. Adjective. (geology) Of or pertaining to ground water ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Phreatic
1. pertaining to underground waters [adj]
Medical Definition of Phreatic
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Phreatic
Literary usage of Phreatic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Igneous Rocks and Their Origin by Reginald Aldworth Daly (1914)
"EXPLOSIVE TYPES: MAGMATIC AND phreatic The foregoing genetic statement for the
Hawaiian vents has l>een ... Following Suess, it may be called phreatic. ..."
2. Irrigation Farming: A Handbook for the Proper Application of Water in the by Lucius Merle Wilcox (1902)
"Underflow, phreatic and Artesian.—These are all definitions of subterranean waters.
Underflow waters may consist of either the phreatic—those waters ..."
3. Transactions of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society by Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society (1906)
"IN THE PLAINS OF MIDDLE LATITUDES, FOREST LOWERS THE LEVEL OF THE phreatic WATERS.
Till 1898, the year when Western Europe learned the unexpected results ..."
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