estuarine
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.49 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to an estuary.
adj
Formed in an estuary by alluvial deposition.
Example Sentences
- "1977, Sewell H. Hopkins, Sam R. Petrocelli, Limiting Factors Affecting the Commercial Fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Estuarine Pollution Control and Assessment: Proceedings of a Conference, Volume 1, page 179, The shellfishes, by far the most valuable part of gulf coast commercial fisheries, are even more estuarine than the finfishes."
- "The small lagoons of southern New Jersey receive an insignificant input of freshwater from watersheds of Cape May Peninsula compared to larger, more estuarine bays to the north (Kran 1975)."
- "Some species are more estuarine than others, for example Pseudotolithus typus replaces P. senegalensis as conditions become more estuarine and Pentanemus quinquarius replaces Galeoides decadactylus."
Etymology
From estuary + -ine.
Inflected Forms
more estuarine (comparative)
most estuarine (superlative)