freshwater

adj

1. (not-comparable)Living in fresh water.

   “The trout is a freshwater fish.”

2. (not-comparable)Consisting of fresh water.

   “Lake Baikal is the world's largest freshwater lake in terms of volume.”

3. (not-comparable)Unskilled as a seaman.

   ““Mate,” said the captain in a low voice, “you talk like a fresh-water sailor. I can only attribute this shyness to some strange delusion, for surely,”—his voice assumed a slightly sneering tone as he said this—“surely I am not to suppose that you have become soft-hearted! […]”

4. (US, not-comparable)Neoclassical, in reference to the macroeconomics and economic departments near the Great Lakes.

   “2012, John Quiggin, Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us, Princeton University Press (expanded paperback ed., 1st ed. from 2010), →ISBN, page 86. Meanwhile, the freshwater side of the dispute rapidly reverted to arguments from the nineteenth century, which had been debunked by Keynes and Irving Fisher.”

noun

1. (countable)A body of fresh water.

   “Fossils with low Sr/Ca ratios indicating origin in a freshwater of a type which has a low Sr/Ca ratio: […]”

   “Smith (1958) found that N. limnicola in Lake Merced, virtually a freshwater, had no paragnaths or at the most one on section I against the "normal" 1–2.”

   “The chances of long-term preservation of fossils in freshwaters are minimal, for freshwaters are readily disturbed and destroyed by drought on the land masses.”

   “Freshwaters are portrayed in many artforms, including books such as Kenneth Grahame's childrens'^([sic]) story Wind in the Willows.”

2. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable)Alternative form of fresh water.

   “Schematic diagram of the viscosity effect during the injection of freshwater.”

   “Above 200m, high-salinity water was being carried southward out of the Arabian Sea. This implies that most of the freshwater was imported into the Arabian Sea in the upper layer.”

   “Actual field data of Cl distribution in soil after irrigation with TWW and freshwater were obtained in a field experiment in Israel (Feigin et al., 2005; Fine et al. 2007).”

   “Alewives are anadromous fish: Born in freshwater, they spend their lives in the ocean, returning annually to their birthplaces to spawn.”

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