estuary 的定义
plural es·tu·ar·ies.
- that part of the mouth or lower course of a river in which the river's current meets the sea's tide.
- an arm or inlet of the sea at the lower end of a river.
estuary 近义词
mouth
更多estuary例句
- Instead, the waters there were not of an expansive estuary but of a river — the Susquehanna — in its final stretch before flowing into the Atlantic.
- The largest estuary in North America, the bay is known for its beauty and bounty.
- Apalachicola Bay, an estuary recognized by the United Nations for its uniqueness, once produced 10 percent of the nation’s oysters and 90 percent of those from Florida.
- Birders will want to check out the estuary at Weeks Bay Reserve or Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge.
- Students spend hours each week learning from the tidal estuary and boreal forest on the 400-acre campus in mid-coast Maine, about 40 miles north of Portland.
- Ghost Hawk arose like a mist from the estuary salt-marsh on the South Shore where she built her island home.
- The estuary where religion and politics intersect is constantly changing.
- Joseph paused for a few second, staring out across the estuary.
- At 20 years old, Henry waded into an estuary and nearly drowned in an attempt to swim across.
- Since then alluvial plains have filled this estuary to even beyond the original mouth.
- Even in early historic times its estuary must have occupied a great part of the land on which stands modern Dover.
- The harbour, formed by the estuary of the river and Yellow Mill Pond, an inlet, is excellent.
- Yacht-building has always been vigorously carried on in the Great Estuary for three generations.
- Towards the west it is skirted by a cliff, once washed by the estuary which separated the eastern portions of Norfolk and Suffolk.