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What does brackish mean?

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Adjective
  1. (of water) Salty or slightly salty, as a mixture of fresh and sea water, such as that found in estuaries.
  2. Distasteful; unpleasant; not appealing to the taste. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  3. Repulsive (Can we add an example for this sense?)
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Forming in brackish seawater, layer after layer of mats have left behind clusters of small, sedimentary columns.
If fresh water is in short supply, we should be able to use sea or brackish or artesian water.
Predator and prey species co-occur in brackish waterbodies close to the Mediterranean coast of Spain.
Wading in a pool of brackish water, a man pans for rubies, sapphires and other gems using a basket at one of Sri Lanka's many pit mines.
If they are the banded wart snakes they make good display snakes and require slightly brackish water.
Near a remote salina, a brackish water hole, the tracks of ocelots and lesser anteaters dimpled the shoreline.

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