estuarine

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of or pertaining to an estuary.
    — 1977, Sewell H. Hopkins, Sam R. Petrocelli, Limiting Factors Affecting the Commercial Fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Estuarine Pollution Control and Assessment: Proceedings of a Conference, Volume 1, page 179, The shellfishes, by far the most valuable part of gulf coast commercial fisheries, are even more estuarine than the finfishes.
  2. Formed in an estuary by alluvial deposition.

词形变化

more estuarine comparative most estuarine superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
estuarine crocodile estuarine perch interestuarine intraestuarine nonestuarine
相关词
riverine

词源

Etymology tree
English estuary
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
English estuarine
From estuary + -ine.
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