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What does surface water mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word surface water? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. Water collecting on the ground or in a stream, river, lake, sea or ocean, as opposed to groundwater.
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On their release from the antheridia, the antherozoids must then swim through surface water to fertilize neighbouring egg cells.
A lush habitat appears where surface water accumulates in shallow depressions to form seasonal or fairly permanent ponds.
Warm surface water is carried from the low latitudes to the higher polar latitudes as a surface current.
I remembered standing on the very tip of its bow, looking down at the surface water boiling around it.
Somewhere in the maze of subterranean cracks below the village, contaminated surface water was leaking into clean groundwater.
Energy advected to and from the lake by precipitation, surface water, and ground water had little effect on evaporation rates.

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