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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Estuary \Es"tu*a*ry\, a.
Belonging to or formed in an estuary; as estuary strata.
--Lyell.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Estuary \Es"tu*a*ry\, n.; pl {Estuaries}. [L. aestuarium from
aestuare to surge. See {Estuate}.] [Written also
{[ae]stuary}.]
1. A place where water boils up a spring that wells forth.
[Obs.] --Boyle.
2. A passage, as the mouth of a river or lake, where the tide
meets the current; an arm of the sea; a frith.
it to the sea was often by long and wide estuaries.
--Dana.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
estuary
n : the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and
salt water mix
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