brackish
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As freshwater input grew, the seaway gradually changed from salty to brackish and eventually to mostly freshwater, similar to conditions seen today in the Gulf of Bothnia.
From Science Daily • Dec. 15, 2025
Just outside the city, it is pumping brackish groundwater from wells and discharging it into the Nueces River, which flows into a water treatment plant.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025
Researchers believe more rainfall and flooding may have caused some brackish lagoons to become less salty, a trend which favors capybaras, since the animals are semi-aquatic freshwater mammals.
From Salon • Sep. 7, 2024
The fish thrive in brackish water, but can also survive in fresh and salt water.
From BBC • Aug. 31, 2024
I took a drink from a horse trough and was thirsty enough not to care that the water was brackish and sour.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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