freshwater English

Meaning freshwater meaning

What does freshwater mean?

Definitions in simple English

freshwater Adjective

— If you describe a plant or animal as being freshwater, you are saying that it lives in fresh water. Do you have saltwater or freshwater fish in your fishtank?"

— If you describe a person as being freshwater, you are saying he is does not have much skill as a seaman. "Who's that freshwater sailor?" "That's Hank. He just started last week."

freshwater

— noun (= fresh water) water that is not salty

Synonyms freshwater synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as freshwater?

freshwater English » English

fresh water

fresh-water

sweet water

soft water

snail

marine

limnetic

crocodile

Topics freshwater topics

What do people use freshwater to talk about?

Universe, creation Water

Water quality

• What words describe salt water versus fresh water?
  freshwater saltwater seawater saline solution brackish

Universe, creation Animal Types of animals

Fish

• What words describe where a fish lives?
  freshwater saltwater pelagic marine aquatic

Examples freshwater examples

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Simple sentences

Poyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake in China.

I believe this fish is a freshwater fish.

There are both freshwater and saltwater mussels.

The trout is a species of freshwater fish.

Movie subtitles

We're dragging every freshwater pond around Lakeman's Hollow to see what we can find.

I was giving him some freshwater.

Freshwater fish imported from Finland.

These look like freshwater pearls.

It's a fake message, Admiral, reporting that Midway's freshwater condenser's broken down.

There ain't nothin' wrong with our freshwater condenser!

Piranha are freshwater fish.

When we moved in, it was a freshwater lake with fish and everything.

They were experimenting with a freshwater fish from the piranha family, I think.

I'll bet you she's about as juicy as a freshwater clam.

We can forget about freshwater divers.

All the thrills of freshwater fly-fishing from the comfort of your living room.

Oh, no, that's freshwater.

Freshwater mullet.

The hissing of bullets is worth more than freshwater.

Of course he can, freshwater Harry!

We've got a freshwater tank on the top deck for showers. everything.

And freshwater fish!

Oh yes. A freshwater algae.

I'll bet she's as juicy as a freshwater clam.

Clear, freshwater streams, fragrant meadows biodegradable toilet paper, the works.

I was noticing this particular detail -- they have some freshwater and seawater poison.

I used to teach zoology in a little freshwater college back East.

Have you ever had a freshwater bath?

Species of miniature, freshwater lobster.

Too bad it's a freshwater fish.

Yeah, it is. It's freshwater eel.

The current depends upon a balance of salt and freshwater.

Yes but no one knows how much freshwater has been dumped into the ocean because of melting polar ice.

It is the only source of freshwater we've found, Sayid.

A freshwater fascist for all the family.

Oh, it's all salty. I'm freshwater.

These freshwater fish taste a lot better than I thought.

Actually, I have a freshwater one of my own.

News and current affairs

For decades, major oil companies, including Shell, ExxonMobil, and Chevron, have been producing oil in the Niger Delta, an ecologically fragile environment of freshwater swamp forests, mangroves, lowland rainforests, and coastal barrier islands.

Because reactors located inland put serious strain on local freshwater resources - including greater damage to plant life and fish - water-stressed countries that are not landlocked try to find suitable seashore sites.

And, because they rely on seawater, they cause no freshwater scarcity.

The bad news about mega-droughts and freshwater scarcity stretches from Brazil to California to conflict-ridden countries in the Middle East.

One type of aquaculture is devoted to the farming of bivalves such as oysters and mussels, or to freshwater fish such as carp and tilapia.

It relies on plants (plankton sometimes supplemented by agricultural by-products in the case of freshwater fish) to generate a net addition to the fish food supply available to consumers.

Nature's water-replenishment capacity is fixed, limiting the world's usable freshwater resources to about 200,000 cubic kilometers.

But such is the nuclear industry's water intensity that EDF withdraws up to 19 billion cubic meters of water per year from rivers and lakes, or roughly half of France's total freshwater consumption.

Freshwater scarcity is a growing international challenge, and the vast majority of countries are in no position to approve of such highly water-intensive inland-based energy systems.

The Tibetan plateau's vast glaciers, huge underground springs and high altitude make Tibet the world's largest freshwater repository after the polar icecaps.