Definitions for estuarine

estuarine es·tu·a·rine

Spelling: [es-choo-uh-rahyn, -er-in]
IPA: /ˈɛs tʃu əˌraɪn, -ər ɪn/

Estuarine is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 684 anagrams from letters in estuarine (aeeinrstu).

Definitions for estuarine

adjective

  1. formed in an estuary.
  2. found in estuaries.

Origin of estuarine

First recorded in 1840-50; estuar(y) + -ine1

Examples for estuarine

Limestone and marine beds in the south are replaced by sandy and estuarine beds in the north.

Oceanic deposits, like the Upper Chalk, are succeeded by beds of littoral and estuarine characters.

We might therefore expect to find coal wherever strata of estuarine origin are developed in great mass.

The chief interest in estuarine conditions is the mingling of sea and fresh water.

Thus in these lowland or estuarine peat-mosses the moss eventually occupies the water, and goes on growing.

It is an estuarine deposit like that mentioned above as occurring in the Wash off Heacham, for instance.

None of the rivers, except in the estuarine parts, is navigable.

A soft jet is obtained from the estuarine series of the Lower Oolites of Yorkshire.

Slowly this sea shallowed, giving rise to the alternating estuarine marine and freshwater deposits of the Coal Measures.

Whether these are marine, lacustrine, or estuarine deposits, there is hardly sufficient evidence to show.

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