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fresh-water

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1. fresh-water - Noun

2. fresh-water - Adjective

Meaning

Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt; as, fresh-water geological deposits; a fresh-water fish; fresh-water mussels.

Accustomed to sail on fresh water only; unskilled as a seaman; as, a fresh-water sailor.

Unskilled; raw.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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fresh water

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1930s Fresh Water Project In the early 1930s there was a project to dam off a third of the lake with dikes on the east side north of Salt Lake City to make a fresh water reservoir for drinking and irrigation. Source: Internet

A check list of North American marine cretaceous vertebrates Including fresh water fishes, Occasional Paper of the Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, (4):57. Source: Internet

According to one report, virtually all the large underground fresh-water supplies in Uzbekistan are polluted by industrial and chemical wastes. Source: Internet

A convert by convert runway was built together with two 400-man barracks, two mess halls, a cold-storage building, an underground hospital, a fresh-water plant, shop buildings, and fuel storage. Source: Internet

A coral table reef surrounds most of Guam, and the limestone plateau provide the source for most of the island's fresh water. Source: Internet

Actinosphaerium are several times larger, from 200-1000 μm in diameter, with many nuclei, and are found exclusively in fresh water. Source: Internet

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