æstuary

A form of estuary — A coastal water body where ocean tides and river water merge, resulting in a brackish water zone.

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Meanings

nounæstuary (plural æstuaries)

plural æstuaries

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of estuary.
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    […] yet I cannot help thinking some allusion may be made to the “Chapel of the Grune,” which in the older maps of Cumberland is marked as existing on the point of land on the western coast running into the æstuary of the Wampool, not far from Skinbumess, which forms part of Allerdale ward, below Derwent, but its history I have in vain searched for in various topographical works.

    1839, Frederic Madden, “Syr Gawayn and the Grene Knyȝt”, in Syr Gawayne, pages 320–321
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APA

æstuary. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/%C3%A6stuary

MLA

“æstuary.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/%C3%A6stuary. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “æstuary,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/%C3%A6stuary.

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